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 “Lectern for Reading Scripture” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 20:49 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 for Reading Scripture

Lectern for Reading Scripture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–1525

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
Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, by Giovanni Pisano

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist

Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

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
Lectern in the Form of an Eagle, by Jehan Aert van Tricht

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle

Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Lectern Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Lectern Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adjustable reading and writing table (pupitre à crémaillère, servant de table), by Martin Carlin

Adjustable reading and writing table (pupitre à crémaillère, servant de table)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1760–65

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
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
Mechanical table (Table mécanique), by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Public domainThe Met
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
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Section of an Apse

Section of an Apse

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reading the Scriptures, by Thomas Waterman Wood

Reading the Scriptures

Thomas Waterman Wood · 1874

Public domainThe Met
RECUEIL DE NOUVEAUX ORNEMENTS Composés Dans le Gout le plus Moderne Destinés a être Executés en Or, Argent, Cuivre et autres Metaux DÉDIÉ A MESSIEURS Les Orfevres, Fondeurs et Ciseleurs Par leur très Humble et très Obeisant Serviteur Mondhare, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

RECUEIL DE NOUVEAUX ORNEMENTS Composés Dans le Gout le plus Moderne Destinés a être Executés en Or, Argent, Cuivre et autres Metaux DÉDIÉ A MESSIEURS Les Orfevres, Fondeurs et Ciseleurs Par leur très Humble et très Obeisant Serviteur Mondhare

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame

The Triumph of Fame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1502–4

Public domainThe Met
Table à 4 Pupitres, pour un Concert, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Table à 4 Pupitres, pour un Concert

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reading a sutra by moonlight, by Unidentified artist

Reading a sutra by moonlight

Unidentified artist · ca. 1332

Public domainThe Met
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
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
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
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Table à 4 Pupitres, pour un Concert, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Table à 4 Pupitres, pour un Concert

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

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. 38 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. 447382 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-30 20:49 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.