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 Wall Monument or Fountain” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:22 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.
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Wall Monument or Fountain

Design for a Wall Monument or Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Monument, by Francesco di Giorgio Martini

Design for a Wall Monument

Francesco di Giorgio Martini · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Chamber

Sepulchral Chamber

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by Jean Le Pautre

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Public domainThe Met
Set Design for Scene 3, "La Vita Humana overo," from "Il Trionfo della Pieta", by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian, 1606 – 1680

Set Design for Scene 3, "La Vita Humana overo," from "Il Trionfo della Pieta"

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian, 1606 – 1680 · 1658

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 a Buffet, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Design for a Buffet

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Niche with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Niche with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Upper Plate: Designs for Fountains, Monuments, and Sculpted Architectural Details, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Upper Plate: Designs for Fountains, Monuments, and Sculpted Architectural Details

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Garden and Monuments, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Designs for a Garden and Monuments

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with a Buffet-Niche, by Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792

Wall Elevation with a Buffet-Niche

Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Buffets, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Designs for Buffets

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

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

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains

Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains

Artist not stated in the record · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument Flanked by Fountains

Design for a Monument Flanked by Fountains

Artist not stated in the record · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Wall Fountain

Design for a Wall Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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. 1776 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. 2153036 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 2026-09-02 01:22 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.