OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Brick Mold from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:04 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Tabernacle and a Baptismal Font, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Design for a Tabernacle and a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Doorway Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bank of Vernal brick

The Bank of Vernal brick

Artist not stated in the record · 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate XXIV from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

Plate XXIV from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple, by Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850

Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple

Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2244370 matched · 40 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:04 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.