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 Pulpit” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:44 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.
All Angels' Church Pulpit and Choir Rail, by Karl Theodore Bitter

All Angels' Church Pulpit and Choir Rail

Karl Theodore Bitter · 1900

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Pulpit

Project for a Pulpit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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
Two projects for a portable pulpit for the church in Offida

Two projects for a portable pulpit for the church in Offida

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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
Design for a Pulpit

Design for a Pulpit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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
View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project), by Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)

Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

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
Model for a Pulpit

Model for a Pulpit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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
Chaire de l’Eglise St Estienne du Mont de Mr. Fremery sur les desseins de Mr. Sarazin, by Martin Frémery, French, active ca. 1650 – ca. 1685

Chaire de l’Eglise St Estienne du Mont de Mr. Fremery sur les desseins de Mr. Sarazin

Martin Frémery, French, active ca. 1650 – ca. 1685 · 1657–1716

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
Project: A pulpit shown in profile

Project: A pulpit shown in profile

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

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
Model for a Pulpit with Staircase

Model for a Pulpit with Staircase

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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
Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Pulpit (Minbar)

Fragment of a Pulpit (Minbar)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 546 AH/1151 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit from Metropolitan AME, by John J. A. Simms, American, ca. 1853 - 1930

Pulpit from Metropolitan AME

John J. A. Simms, American, ca. 1853 - 1930 · ca. 1870-1890; refinished ca. 1920-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus

Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Lectern Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Lectern Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground, by Edgar Degas

Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground

Edgar Degas · modeled after 1878, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Design for Pulpit

Design for Pulpit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

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. 2577 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. 2502614 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 21:44 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.