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 “Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:16 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.

A Garden with Ruined Archway

A Garden with Ruined Archway

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, View into Palace

Stage Design, View into Palace

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, View into Palace

Stage Design, View into Palace

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capriccio for a Painted Ceiling, by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715

Capriccio for a Painted Ceiling

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Garden, by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715

Fantastic Garden

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
J. P. Morgan, by Georges Goursat, 1863 - 1934

J. P. Morgan

Georges Goursat, 1863 - 1934 · c. 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Memorial to the Napoleonic Naval Heroes Admiral Federico Carlos de Gravina and Rear-Admiral Don Antonio Escaño, Defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Memorial to the Napoleonic Naval Heroes Admiral Federico Carlos de Gravina and Rear-Admiral Don Antonio Escaño, Defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · after 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Antonio Allegri (called Correggio) (1494-1535)

Portrait of Antonio Allegri (called Correggio) (1494-1535)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canova, by M. Cauci, n.d.

Canova

M. Cauci, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diplazium buchtienii Rosenst.

Diplazium buchtienii Rosenst.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1907 to Dec 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poikilacanthus glandulosus (Nees) Ariza

Poikilacanthus glandulosus (Nees) Ariza

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jan 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design; Palace Court, by Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena

Stage Design; Palace Court

Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena · late 17th century

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. 63066 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 22:16 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.