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 “Elevation of the Entrance Wall of a Hall” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:04 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.
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

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

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of the Entrance Wall of a Hall

Elevation of the Entrance Wall of a Hall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Entrance Hall, the East Wall, the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the Entrance Hall, the East Wall, the Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

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
Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · before 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Entrance Hall, North Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Decoration, Entrance Hall, North Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802 or earlier

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
Entrance Hall, West Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Entrance Hall, West Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802 or earlier

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–20

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

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for the West Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion at Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the West Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion at Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

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

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

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

Public domainThe Met
Entrance Hall, North Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Entrance Hall, North Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802 or earlier

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

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

Public domainThe Met
Proposed Design for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Proposed Design for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor

Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor

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

Public domainThe Met
Gothic Country House: Entrance Hall, by Ed Blore

Gothic Country House: Entrance Hall

Ed Blore · 1835–40

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. 1021 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. 4629270 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 00:04 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.