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: Vaulted Interior” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:11 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.
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, by Emanuel de Witte

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft

Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Vaulted Interior

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roman Interior, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Roman Interior

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Vaulted Interior

Stage Design: Vaulted Interior

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Vaulted Church Interior

Stage Design, Vaulted Church Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Herman Doomer

Cabinet

Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interior of a Vaulted Hall and a Capital, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interior of a Vaulted Hall and a Capital

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set, by Carlo Zucchi the Younger

Design for a Stage Set

Carlo Zucchi the Younger · ca. 1748–95

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Prison, by Luigi Ricci, Italian, 1823 - 1896

Stage Design, Interior of Prison

Luigi Ricci, Italian, 1823 - 1896 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
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
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Building

Stage Design, Interior of Renaissance Building

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Palace, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Interior of Palace

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Set of a Room Interior with Receding Perspective, by Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Stage Set of a Room Interior with Receding Perspective

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century · 1700–1780

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

Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Palace

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Classical Temple Interior with Tombs, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Classical Temple Interior with Tombs

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 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. 160 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 668518 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 10:11 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.