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 “Panel with crouching figure holding a key” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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.

Designs for Panels and Console Tables, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Panels and Console Tables

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copy of Competition Design by Vanvitelli for the Facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano, by Unknown, Italian

Copy of Competition Design by Vanvitelli for the Facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano

Unknown, Italian · 1763, after a drawing of 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Decoration of a Panel, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Painted Decorations of Three Panels

Design for the Painted Decorations of Three Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1580-1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Panel, by Michel, French, active 18th century

Design for a Painted Panel

Michel, French, active 18th century · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for panel with carved trophies, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for panel with carved trophies

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Throne, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Throne

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Decoration of a Panel, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Decoration of a Panel, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Two Vertical Panels, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Designs for Two Vertical Panels

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a candlestand, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Design for a candlestand

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1650

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. 1891865 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 15:09 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.