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. 24 shown for “Design for a Fountain with the Coat-of-Arms of Pope Gregory XVI” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:30 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 Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with the Coat-of-Arms of Pope Gregory XVI

Design for a Fountain with the Coat-of-Arms of Pope Gregory XVI

Artist not stated in the record · 1831–1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco, by Jean-François Montessuy

Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco

Jean-François Montessuy · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Coffeepot

Design for a Coffeepot

Artist not stated in the record · 1831–46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Two Bell Towers, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Two Bell Towers

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain in the Garden of the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, Italy, by Ferdinando Fuga, Italian, 1699 - 1781

Design for a Fountain in the Garden of the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, Italy

Ferdinando Fuga, Italian, 1699 - 1781 · 1742–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Clement X (1590–1676), by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Pope Clement X (1590–1676)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670–71

Public domainThe Met
The Coat of Arms of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)

The Coat of Arms of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)

Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Unknown

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unknown · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Innocent X, by Alessandro Algardi

Pope Innocent X

Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Coat of Arms and Equestrian Statue, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Design for Fountain with Coat of Arms and Equestrian Statue

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Parts of a Coach

Designs for Parts of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

The Adoration of the Magi

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Public domainThe Met
Fountain with the arms of Pope Clement XI Albani, by Ludovicus Radix, Italian

Fountain with the arms of Pope Clement XI Albani

Ludovicus Radix, Italian · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for Parts of a Coach

Design for Parts of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling with the Arms of Pope Clement XI

Design for a Ceiling with the Arms of Pope Clement XI

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1721

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. 280 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 435 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 2026-09-03 06:30 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.