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. 12 shown for “Project for the Stucco Decoration of a Circular Ceiling” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Project for the Stucco Decoration of a Circular Ceiling

Project for the Stucco Decoration of a Circular Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Carlo Maria Pozzi

Ceiling Design

Carlo Maria Pozzi · 1708

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Vaulted Ceiling

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling to be Executed in Stucco

Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling to be Executed in Stucco

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Ceiling

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1578–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Five Ceiling Schemes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Five Ceiling Schemes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Decorations for a Ceiling, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Decorations for a Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4194375 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 23:20 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.