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. 16 shown for “Lectern cover” — 44 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:33 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.
Lectern cover

Lectern cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century or early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Lectern used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church

Lectern used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with the Annunciation

Tapestry with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1410–20

Public domainThe Met
Lectern used at the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station, Indiana

Lectern used at the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station, Indiana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by South German (Bavarian?) Painter

The Annunciation

South German (Bavarian?) Painter · 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce, by Lange, active 1730 – 1750

Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce

Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

The Annunciation

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Public domainThe Met
Lutrin, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Lutrin

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Lectern Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Lectern, by Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736

Design for a Lectern

Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736 · ca. 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern

Lectern

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of an Apse

Section of an Apse

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girandole à Plateau, Table de Nuit, Pupitre à Tiroirs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Girandole à Plateau, Table de Nuit, Pupitre à Tiroirs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "Scientific Group", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for "Scientific Group"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Portrait of Jean Paul Marat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Procession of the Sacrament, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Procession of the Sacrament

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595 – 1605

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 35824 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 18:33 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.