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 “Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:19 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.
Section of the House and Proscenium, by Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690

Section of the House and Proscenium

Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painted Ceiling, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water color; Tarantella dancers, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; Tarantella dancers

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water color; Night Fishing at the Entrance to a Cave, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; Night Fishing at the Entrance to a Cave

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Ceiling Fresco: Leda and the Swan, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Project for a Ceiling Fresco: Leda and the Swan

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Adoration of the Shepherds

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1750–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costumes of Sicily, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Costumes of Sicily

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water color; Two peasants dancing to the music of bagpipe and horn, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; Two peasants dancing to the music of bagpipe and horn

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costumes of South Calabria, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Costumes of South Calabria

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water color; On the shore in Chiaja, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; On the shore in Chiaja

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 499730 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 16:19 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.