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 Pediment” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:55 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pediment

Design for a Pediment

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pediment, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Design for a Pediment

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Pediment with Balcony Above

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pediment with an Armorial Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Louis Plantar

Design for a Pediment with an Armorial Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Louis Plantar · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pediment, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Design for a Pediment

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pediment with an Armorial Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Louis Plantar

Design for a Pediment with an Armorial Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Louis Plantar · 1848

Public domainThe Met
DIVERS FRAGMENS DARCHITECTURE, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

DIVERS FRAGMENS DARCHITECTURE

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pediment with Putti and a Blank Escutcheon, by Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Design for a Pediment with Putti and a Blank Escutcheon

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century · 1680–1730

Public domainThe Met
Design for a door with arched pediment, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a door with arched pediment

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1746

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Carved Relief and Pediment, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Designs for a Carved Relief and Pediment

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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 door case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for a door case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

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
Two Teams of Horses, fragment of an Advanced Sketch Model for the Apotheosis of Democracy Pediment, House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol Building, by Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925

Two Teams of Horses, fragment of an Advanced Sketch Model for the Apotheosis of Democracy Pediment, House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol Building

Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled 1909-1910

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
Studies for Entablatures and Pediment, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Studies for Entablatures and Pediment

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

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
Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

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

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for a Gateway for a Prison Erected by Pope Pius VI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sketches for a Gateway for a Prison Erected by Pope Pius VI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Entablature and Pediment

Project for an Entablature and Pediment

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

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. 22382 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. 2092289 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 2026-09-06 11:55 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.