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 Window Case” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 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.
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Window Case

Project for a Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses presenting the tablets of law, by Valentin Bousch

Moses presenting the tablets of law

Valentin Bousch · 1532

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
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

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
Traveling clock watch with alarm, by Thomas Tompion

Traveling clock watch with alarm

Thomas Tompion · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

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 Elevation of a Window Case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for Elevation of a Window Case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

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

Public domainThe Met
Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ground Floor Window Case

Design for a Ground Floor Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Innocent X, by Alessandro Algardi

Pope Innocent X

Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Design for Window Case and Part of a Colonnade, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for Window Case and Part of a Colonnade

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1740–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Case

Design for a Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case watch, by Thomas Tompion

Pair-case watch

Thomas Tompion · 1682–83

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Hanging

Design for a Window Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for a Window Case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Frame

Design for a Window Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–60

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. 715 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2511034 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 17:20 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.