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 “Pair of Minbar Doors” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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.
Pair of Minbar Doors

Pair of Minbar Doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Public domainThe Met
Doors of a prison, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Doors of a prison

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Palace, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Door

Design for a Painted Door

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of mirrored double doors, by Lorenzo de Ferrari

Pair of mirrored double doors

Lorenzo de Ferrari · ca. 1743–44

Public domainThe Met
cabinet

cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of double doors

Pair of double doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Swinging doors from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse, by Unidentified

Swinging doors from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

Unidentified · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Doors

Pair of Doors

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mausoleum

Design for a Mausoleum

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Doors

Pair of Doors

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flower Style Doors

Pair of Flower Style Doors

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'

Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Carved Doors

Pair of Carved Doors

Artist not stated in the record · dated [8]70 AH/1466 CE

Public domainThe Met
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door board (jovo)

Door board (jovo)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1700

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. 265 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2860086 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-26 20:53 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.