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 Wall Decoration” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 00:52 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.
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Wall Decoration

Project for a Wall Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall fountain, by Simone Mosca

Wall fountain

Simone Mosca · 1527–34

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Wall Decoration

Project for a Wall Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Wall Decoration

Project for a Wall Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support a circular medallion with coat of arms)

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support a circular medallion with coat of arms)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms), by Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)

Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of a wall to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page.

One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of a wall to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page.

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of a wall to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page

One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of a wall to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of wall panels, to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page (Wall Decoration: Angel and Escutcheon)

One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of wall panels, to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page (Wall Decoration: Angel and Escutcheon)

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for the decoration of a chapel

Project for the decoration of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden), by Unknown, Italian

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)

Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of wall panels, to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page

One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of wall panels, to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of wall panels, to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page

One of a set of twelve projects for the decoration of wall panels, to be placed at a height. Preceded by a title page

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1699

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. 3031 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. 2542499 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 2026-09-07 00:52 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.