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, Interior of Large Hall” — 64 records examined, 3 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.
Hunting Sword, by Hans Sumersperger

Hunting Sword

Hans Sumersperger · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall

Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, by Emanuel de Witte

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft

Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Interior

Stage Design, Palace Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with cover and liner, by Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers

Tureen with cover and liner

Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers · 1775–76

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interior of a Hall in the Classical Style, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interior of a Hall in the Classical Style

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

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

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Palace

Stage Design, Interior of Palace

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Interior, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Palace Interior

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interiors of a Palace, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interiors of a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

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
Roman Interior, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Roman Interior

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Hall

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 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 High Gothic Hall with Ogival Arches, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Interior of High Gothic Hall with Ogival Arches

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

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

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Hall

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Palace Hall

Stage Design, Interior of Palace Hall

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of a Sepulchral Hall, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Interior of a Sepulchral Hall

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 1815–30

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. 1183 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3234733 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 2026-09-02 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.