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 Painted Frieze” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:25 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.
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for a painted frieze

Design for a painted frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1775-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a painted frieze

Design for a painted frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table, by Richard de Lalonde

Console table

Richard de Lalonde · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Frieze

Design for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Painted Frieze

Project for a Painted Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure, by Bastis Master

Marble female figure

Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

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
Plate with figures in arbor, by Cornelis Pronk

Plate with figures in arbor

Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate depicting a lady with parasol, by Cornelis Pronk

Plate depicting a lady with parasol

Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1734–37

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso), by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879

Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1830–60

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. 4803 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2105467 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 06:25 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.