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 “Column and Capital” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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.

Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails d’une Glaciere, surmontée d’une Salle de Danse Egyptienne, de Volieres, et d’un kiosque pour le Parc de Mr Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Architecte des Monnoies de France

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salon de l'Ordre Corinthien, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Salon de l'Ordre Corinthien

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Wall

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Title Page

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brackets and a Column Capital with Eagles, in Dessins d'Ango Ornements et Architecture (Drawings of Ornaments and Architecture by Ango), by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Brackets and a Column Capital with Eagles, in Dessins d'Ango Ornements et Architecture (Drawings of Ornaments and Architecture by Ango)

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · 1760–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aedicule with Coat-of-arms

Aedicule with Coat-of-arms

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruins of the Praetorium of Phaena, al-Masmiyah, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins of the Praetorium of Phaena, al-Masmiyah, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 28, 1868

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. 1470356 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-26 18:15 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.