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 Architecture” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:25 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.
Five marble architectural fragments

Five marble architectural fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–92 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace architecture, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design: Palace architecture

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Panel from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1847

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

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

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

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture with Trophies

Stage Design: Palace Architecture with Trophies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

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

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

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

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

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
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase, by Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701

Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase

Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

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

Stage Design, Interior of Ruined Renaissance Palace

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · ca. 1845–59

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls

Stage Design: Interior of Palace Halls

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th 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. 756 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 655716 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 04:25 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.