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: Arcade Leading to a Garden” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:15 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.
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Arcade Leading to a Garden

Stage Design: Arcade Leading to a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
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
Cabinet, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Cabinet

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

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
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, A Porticoed Bridge, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, A Porticoed Bridge

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 1815–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Open Temple in a Garden, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Open Temple in a Garden

Unknown, Italian · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Building Adjoining Park Scenery

Stage Design, Building Adjoining Park Scenery

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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
Staircase to Arcade in Bishop’s Palace, by Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765

Staircase to Arcade in Bishop’s Palace

Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Garden Architecture

Stage Design: Palace Garden Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace in Clouds, by Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701

Stage Design: Palace in Clouds

Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1714

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: Stairway and Arcades Leading to a Salone, by Giovanni Battista Natali III

Design for a Stage Set: Stairway and Arcades Leading to a Salone

Giovanni Battista Natali III · 1698–1765

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

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. 270 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. 2738666 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 01:15 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.