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 “Part of a confessional grille” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:30 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.
Part of a confessional grille

Part of a confessional grille

Artist not stated in the record · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Confessional, no. 5

Design for a Confessional, no. 5

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix

Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40, with later grill

Public domainThe Met
Two Sketches of a Cardinal, and a Confessional, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Two Sketches of a Cardinal, and a Confessional

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1883

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

Pair of Minbar Doors

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Confessional, no. 4

Design for a Confessional, no. 4

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Confessional, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Confessional

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Confessional, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Confessional

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Confessional, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Confessional

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Confessional, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Confessional

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Window grill from a palace of Ramesses III

Window grill from a palace of Ramesses III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1166 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’un plan rond, dont le Couronnement est ceintre en S./ Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’un plan rond, dont le Couronnement est en dôme, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’un plan rond, dont le Couronnement est ceintre en S./ Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’un plan rond, dont le Couronnement est en dôme

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty, by Master of the Acts of Mercy

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty

Master of the Acts of Mercy

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional dont le plan est ceintré en S. et le coin arrondy / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional, dont le plan est ceintré en S. et le coin carré, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional dont le plan est ceintré en S. et le coin arrondy / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional, dont le plan est ceintré en S. et le coin carré

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Andrew, by Simone Martini

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’une ance de Panier, et la Corniche en S. / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’un plein ceintre par le côté, et orné d’une Corniche aussi en S., by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’une ance de Panier, et la Corniche en S. / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional ceintré d’un plein ceintre par le côté, et orné d’une Corniche aussi en S.

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid, by Rafal Amezúa

Choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid

Rafal Amezúa · completed ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional posé dans un angle lequel est ceintré en S. / et orné d’une arrière-voussure au dessus de la porte / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional aussi posé dans un angle, la porte ouvrante plein ceintre sous une arriere-voussure de Marseille, et la corniche ornée d’un ceintre surbaissé, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional posé dans un angle lequel est ceintré en S. / et orné d’une arrière-voussure au dessus de la porte / Plan et Elévation d’un Confessional aussi posé dans un angle, la porte ouvrante plein ceintre sous une arriere-voussure de Marseille, et la corniche ornée d’un ceintre surbaissé

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors

Fra Filippo Lippi · 1440s

Public domainThe Met
Stereocaulon sp.

Stereocaulon sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1967 to 1968

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. 35 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3855736 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-29 00:30 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.