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 “Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:51 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.
Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a Ceiling from the Tomb of Bakenrenef

Part of a Ceiling from the Tomb of Bakenrenef

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Keystone from an Arch with Cross and Acanthus Leaves

Keystone from an Arch with Cross and Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Ceiling, by Marco Capizucchi, Italian, 1784 - 1844

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Marco Capizucchi, Italian, 1784 - 1844 · 1830–39

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder

Commode

Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Vaulted Ceiling, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composite Papyrus Capital

Composite Papyrus Capital

Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corbel with a Pair of Beard-Pulling Acrobats

Corbel with a Pair of Beard-Pulling Acrobats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling, by Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817

Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817 · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Vaulted Interior

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling Frieze

Design for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, View into Palace

Stage Design, View into Palace

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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. 112 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1963026 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 2026-08-28 12:51 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.