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. 12 shown for “Framework in three sections, possibly for an altar tablet” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Framework in three sections, possibly for an altar tablet

Framework in three sections, possibly for an altar tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Designs for Altar Cross Bases; verso, Designs for Five Projects, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Two Designs for Altar Cross Bases; verso, Designs for Five Projects

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · 1530–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar Tablet, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for an Altar Tablet

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for an altar

Project for an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for an Altar, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Project for an Altar

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1640–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Design for an Altar

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1640–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of an Altar Mensa

Elevation of an Altar Mensa

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Christ Child upon an Altar between Two Saints

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7469119 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 15:09 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.