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 “Stage Design, Portico with Staircase” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:07 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Stage Design; Palace Courtyard with Staircase

Stage Design; Palace Courtyard with Staircase

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Palace Interior

Stage Design, Palace Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alternate Views of a Domed Building with Portico

Alternate Views of a Domed Building with Portico

Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan of the Ground Floor of a Country House

Plan of the Ground Floor of a Country House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alternate Scheme for Ground Floor Plan of a Country House

Alternate Scheme for Ground Floor Plan of a Country House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1781

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

Sketches for a Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE MONASTERE ROYAL DE VAL DE GRACE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE MONASTERE ROYAL DE VAL DE GRACE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1668–1703

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

Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Staircase, Voorst Castle, The Hague, Netherlands, by Isaac de Moucheron, Dutch, 1667–1744

Design for Staircase, Voorst Castle, The Hague, Netherlands

Isaac de Moucheron, Dutch, 1667–1744 · 1697–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Coupe d’une Maison de Campagne Comanancé près Malmaison en 1792 pour Me du G par Mandar Architecte et Ingénieur en chef des Ponts et Chaussée, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan et Coupe d’une Maison de Campagne Comanancé près Malmaison en 1792 pour Me du G par Mandar Architecte et Ingénieur en chef des Ponts et Chaussée

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 834829 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 2026-09-04 04:07 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.