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 “Mat From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:02 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.

Stage Design, Courtyard of an Egyptian Temple, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Courtyard of an Egyptian Temple

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple, by Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850

Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple

Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple, by Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850

Stage Design, Entrance to an Oriental Temple

Karl Josef Koebel, German, active Italy, 1796 - 1850 · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Civil War Unknowns and Temple of Fame at Arlington National Cemetary, by Gruber, Martin A

Tomb of Civil War Unknowns and Temple of Fame at Arlington National Cemetary

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Egyptian Temple, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Interior of Egyptian Temple

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monument for an Accademia della Pace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Monument for an Accademia della Pace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samples from Malmaison, by Augustin François André Picot, French

Samples from Malmaison

Augustin François André Picot, French · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Classical Temple

A Classical Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Hall in a Babylonian Palace for the Opera "Ciro in Babylonia" by Gioacchino Rossini, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Hall in a Babylonian Palace for the Opera "Ciro in Babylonia" by Gioacchino Rossini

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1818–19

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. 1361898 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 09:02 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.