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 the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:29 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.
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions

Project for the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

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
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions

Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions, by Unknown, Austrian

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions

Unknown, Austrian · 1835–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle

Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

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
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternative Suggestions

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–50

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

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Organ Case with Arms of P

Organ Case with Arms of P

Artist not stated in the record · 1655–67

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek, by Hans of Landshut

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek

Hans of Landshut · 1498

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternative Suggestions, by Unknown, Austrian

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternative Suggestions

Unknown, Austrian · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Wall Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions, by Unknown, Austrian

Design for a Painted Wall Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions

Unknown, Austrian · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

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. 3555 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3361473 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 19:29 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.