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 a Ceiling Frieze” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:48 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.
Ceiling

Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling

Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with a frieze of gazelles

Cup with a frieze of gazelles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Project for a Ceiling Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling

Project for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune and the Winds, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Neptune and the Winds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling

Project for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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. 432 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. 2503449 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 2026-08-28 04:48 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.