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. 13 shown for “Sepulchral Chamber” — 41 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:32 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.
Painted limestone funerary slab with a man controlling a rearing horse

Painted limestone funerary slab with a man controlling a rearing horse

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Chamber

Sepulchral Chamber

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument of James III and Henry Cardinal York

Sepulchral Monument of James III and Henry Cardinal York

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument of the Last Three Stuarts

Sepulchral Monument of the Last Three Stuarts

Artist not stated in the record · 1788–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Sepulchral Monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1720-1788)

A Sepulchral Monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1720-1788)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Sepulchral monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young Pretender” (1720-1788), by Unknown

A Sepulchral monument of Henry Cardinal York (1725-1807) and Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young Pretender” (1720-1788)

Unknown · 1788–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs and Sketches for a Mausoleum, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs and Sketches for a Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Burial Chamber of Persian Kings, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Burial Chamber of Persian Kings

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Exterior of Palace, Sepulchral Hall, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Exterior of Palace, Sepulchral Hall

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sepulchral Crest or Timepiece, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Sepulchral Crest or Timepiece

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5242 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-02 03:32 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.