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, Stone Interior with Stairway” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:40 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, Stone Interior with Stairway

Stage Design, Stone Interior with Stairway

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Underground Stairways and Galleries of a Fortified Palace, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Underground Stairways and Galleries of a Fortified Palace

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1800

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

Stage Design: Palace Interior

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island, by Charles Salagnad, French

Design for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, French · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design with Overlay for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island, by Charles Salagnad, French

Design with Overlay for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, French · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior Scene with Mary, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Interior Scene with Mary

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Portion of Stairway in Chateau-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island, by Charles Salagnad, French

Design for Portion of Stairway in Chateau-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, French · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Portion of Stairway, Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island, by Charles Salagnad, French

Design for Portion of Stairway, Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, French · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Stairway Leading to an Obelisk, a Triumphal Arch, and an Arcade

Stage Design: Stairway Leading to an Obelisk, a Triumphal Arch, and an Arcade

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Pilate, from The Little Passion Series

Christ before Pilate, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rustic Interior: Stage Design for the Teatro de' Felicini, Bologna, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Rustic Interior: Stage Design for the Teatro de' Felicini, Bologna

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island, by Charles Salagnad, French

Design for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, French · 1872

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. 907040 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 08:40 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.