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 “Design for Stage Set with Porticoed Palazzo” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:52 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.

Stage Design, Portico with Monument

Stage Design, Portico with Monument

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Overdoor Design Set Within a Vault, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Overdoor Design Set Within a Vault

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Stage Curtain: Apollo and Marsyas, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Portico with Buildings

Stage Design, Portico with Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Porticoes with View of a Park

Stage Design, Porticoes with View of a Park

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza;

Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza;

Artist not stated in the record · 1802–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Portico

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Antique Building with Porticoes

Stage Design, Antique Building with Porticoes

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 1171565 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 2026-09-05 03:52 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.