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. 23 shown for “Pilasters” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 03:14 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.
Pilasters

Pilasters

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Wall with a Built-in Cabinet

Design of a Wall with a Built-in Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

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

Saint Andrew

Andrea Bregno · 1491

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Decorated Pilasters, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Decorated Pilasters

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

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

Marble fragment of a pilaster

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Decorated Pilasters, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Decorated Pilasters

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble pilaster capital

Marble pilaster capital

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

Public domainThe Met
Two designs for andirons, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Two designs for andirons

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

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
Design for two andirons, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for two andirons

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two marble pilasters

Two marble pilasters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 117–138 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gateway of a villa, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Gateway of a villa

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilaster

Pilaster

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Chambranle à Pilastres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chambranle à Pilastres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portion of a Pilaster with an Acrobat

Portion of a Pilaster with an Acrobat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–70

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and borders

Sidewall and borders

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double door: four panels, two pilasters, three gilt moldings for the door frame

Double door: four panels, two pilasters, three gilt moldings for the door frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Temple of Azani, Capitals of Pilasters, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Temple of Azani, Capitals of Pilasters

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of pilaster capitals

Pair of pilaster capitals

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
pilaster

pilaster

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of pilasters from an armoire

Pair of pilasters from an armoire

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation and Plan for Sideboard with Reeded Pilasters, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Elevation and Plan for Sideboard with Reeded Pilasters

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilaster

Pilaster

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 272 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 590 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 03:14 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.