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 “Stage Design, Antique Views in Garden” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:09 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.
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Views in Garden

Stage Design, Antique Views in Garden

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, View of Antique Town

Stage Design, View of Antique Town

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design of the Ruins of an Antique Building, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design of the Ruins of an Antique Building

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Centennial Pedestal, by Karl L. H. Müller

Centennial Pedestal

Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Monuments, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Monuments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Antique Buildings

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with Apes

Beaker with Apes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Buildings

Stage Design, Antique Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Louis XV Room, by Jean-François Roumier

The Louis XV Room

Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Building with Porticoes

Stage Design, Antique Building with Porticoes

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Hall in Antique Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Interior of Hall in Antique Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a mandala

Base for a mandala

Artist not stated in the record · first half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

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

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. 816 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7464227 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 2026-09-05 01:09 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.