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 Stucco Decoration” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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.
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for Stucco Decoration

Project for Stucco Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Cornice Panel

Fragment of a Cornice Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Stucco Decoration of a Circular Ceiling

Project for the Stucco Decoration of a Circular Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stucco Decorations of Panels

Design for Stucco Decorations of Panels

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Inscription, Found behind Stucco Dado Panel

Fragment of Inscription, Found behind Stucco Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stucco Decorations of Panels

Design for Stucco Decorations of Panels

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stucco relief panel

Stucco relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Vaulted Ceiling

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Ceiling Design

Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Dado Panels

Painted Dado Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Ceiling

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1578–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Five Ceiling Schemes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Five Ceiling Schemes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze with a Pattern of Octagons and Squares

Frieze with a Pattern of Octagons and Squares

Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling to be Executed in Stucco

Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling to be Executed in Stucco

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tondo mirror frame, by Benedetto da Maiano

Tondo mirror frame

Benedetto da Maiano · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Castello Estense, Ferrara, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Castello Estense, Ferrara

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1822

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an oblong stucco ceiling: gaines and garlands

Project for an oblong stucco ceiling: gaines and garlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–75

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. 1481 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. 1034045 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 23:20 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.