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 “Project for Entablature and Pediment” — 54 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:13 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.
Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation., by Reinhold Vasters

Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation.

Reinhold Vasters · second half 16th century (panels); ca. 1865–90 (frame)

Public domainThe Met
Project for Entablature and Pediment

Project for Entablature and Pediment

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Entablature and Pediment

Project for an Entablature and Pediment

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal amphoriskos

Glass hexagonal amphoriskos

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

Public domainThe Met
Studies for Entablatures and Pediment, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Studies for Entablatures and Pediment

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Projects for Door Frames

Two Projects for Door Frames

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Tomb of a Youth, by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

Design for the Tomb of a Youth

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1524–25

Public domainThe Met
Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures in One of Michelangelo's Niches on the Apse of St. Peter's, Rome, by Hubert Robert

Figures in One of Michelangelo's Niches on the Apse of St. Peter's, Rome

Hubert Robert · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Elevation for a Rusticated Gateway with Tuscan Columns

Elevation for a Rusticated Gateway with Tuscan Columns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Monumental Altar, plate Q from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen", by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for a Monumental Altar, plate Q from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Project: The elevation of an altar

Project: The elevation of an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt, by Giovanni Lanfranco

Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Lanfranco · 1582–1647

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Chimney Piece

Project for a Chimney Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67

Giuseppe Arcimboldo · 1564–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Triumphal Arch (recto); Alternate Study for a Triumphal Arch (verso), by Hubert Robert

Study for a Triumphal Arch (recto); Alternate Study for a Triumphal Arch (verso)

Hubert Robert · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Door in a garden wall, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Door in a garden wall

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alphonse de Gisors (1796–1866), by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Alphonse de Gisors (1796–1866)

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1827

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Case

Design for a Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 5)., by Sangallo family

Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 5).

Sangallo family · 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Project for the modernization of an altar, by Luigi Voghera, Italian, 1788 - 1840

Project for the modernization of an altar

Luigi Voghera, Italian, 1788 - 1840 · ca. 1830

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 2036868 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 15:13 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.