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 door” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:00 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 Door Wall, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

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
Design for a Door Wall, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

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

Design for a Door Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Door

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door Wall, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door, by Anonymous, British, 19th century

Design for a Door

Anonymous, British, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door Wall, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door, by Anonymous, British, 19th century

Design for a Door

Anonymous, British, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Door

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door, by Anonymous, Flemish

Design for a Door

Anonymous, Flemish · ca. 1700–25

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door Frame

Design for a Door Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a door, by Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

Design for a door

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door Frame

Design for a Door Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookstand, by Charles-Auguste Questel

Bookstand

Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Design for a door

Design for a door

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door Frame, by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

Design for a Door Frame

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau · 1565–70

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. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door Frame, by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

Design for a Door Frame

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau · 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a door

Design for a door

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

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. 22949 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2092997 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 00:00 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.