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 Dado” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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.
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Dado

Project for a Dado

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for Altars

Sketches for Altars

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Dado Panels

Painted Dado Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of an altar retable for a project

Elevation of an altar retable for a project

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570-1600

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 Sepulchral Monument

Project for a Sepulchral Monument

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

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 Window Case

Project for a Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

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
Design for a Panel

Design for a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1785

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
Designs for Five Mausoleums, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Five Mausoleums

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

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: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Project: the elevation of an altar, intended to be executed with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

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 the Painted Decoration of a Dome

Project for the Painted Decoration of a Dome

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of a Frieze, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for the Decoration of a Frieze

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Dado

Dado

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze man and centaur

Bronze man and centaur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar

Project for an altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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. 2554 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2503121 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 2026-09-03 15:09 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.