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, Palace Courts” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:47 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 Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Courts

Stage Design, Palace Courts

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Court

Stage Design, Palace Court

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Court with Stairs

Stage Design, Palace Court with Stairs

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design; Palace Court, by Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena

Stage Design; Palace Court

Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · ca. 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Open Palace Court

Stage Design, Open Palace Court

Artist not stated in the record · early 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 Designs, Views into Palace Courts, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Designs, Views into Palace Courts

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with floral and abstract motifs and inscription

Bowl with floral and abstract motifs and inscription

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1847

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Courtyard

Stage Design, Palace Courtyard

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, by Jörg Breu the Younger

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh

Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Palace Courtyards and Staircases

Stage Design, Palace Courtyards and Staircases

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Exterior of Palace

Stage Design, Exterior of Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1756

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
Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: A Royal Palace at the Seaside

Stage Design: A Royal Palace at the Seaside

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso), by Josef Platzer

Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Josef Platzer · mid-18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Portico and Court of Palace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Two Designs for Portico and Court of Palace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 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. 586 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 651153 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 2026-08-28 20:47 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.