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. 22 shown for “Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche” — 50 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:43 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.
Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche

Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary altar

Marble funerary altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar: intended to be executed in colored marbles

Project for an altar: intended to be executed in colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble funerary altar

Marble funerary altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Altar of Colored Marbles,, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Altar of Colored Marbles,

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble pediment of a funerary altar

Marble pediment of a funerary altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 120–130 CE

Public domainThe Met
Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy, by Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804

Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy

Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Andrew, by Andrea Bregno

Saint Andrew

Andrea Bregno · 1491

Public domainThe Met
Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles

Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls

Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze

Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a cinerary urn

Marble fragment of a cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary urn

Marble cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze

Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for an Altar

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for an Altar

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Title Page

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

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
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2860193 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 18:43 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.