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 an Altar” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 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.
Project for an Altar, by Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Project for an Altar

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar

Project for an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Crucifixion

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar

Project for an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flagellation, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar with Angels and Pediment

Project for an Altar with Angels and Pediment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar coffer

Altar coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar

Altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 232

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Tusk, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Altar Tusk

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 1888–97

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze

Project for an altar: intended to be executed with colored marble and gilded bronze

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court official from a commemorative altar, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Court official from a commemorative altar

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model for an altar

Model for an altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Tusk, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Altar Tusk

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · ca. 1712–50

Public domainThe Met
Project for an altar with alternative suggestions

Project for an altar with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar candlestick, by Andrea di Alessandri, called Il Bresciano

Altar candlestick

Andrea di Alessandri, called Il Bresciano · ca. 1565

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

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. 2726 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1070879 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 05:46 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.