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 “Stained Glass Panel with St. Bernard” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 16:10 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.
Stained Glass Panel with St. Bernard

Stained Glass Panel with St. Bernard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1505–08

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window

Design for Stained Glass Window

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table (Table mécanique), by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window, St. Paul's Church, Boston, MA, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Design for Stained Glass Window, St. Paul's Church, Boston, MA

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1870–74

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford, by Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford

Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jubal and Miriam, by William Jay Bolton

Jubal and Miriam

William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Public domainThe Met
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, by Eduard Petrovich Hau, Estonian, 1807 – 1888

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

Eduard Petrovich Hau, Estonian, 1807 – 1888 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with Queen Kunigunde

Stained Glass Panel with Queen Kunigunde

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Panel

Heraldic Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1609

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with Emperor Henry II

Stained Glass Panel with Emperor Henry II

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Welcome Panel

Welcome Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York, by John La Farge

Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York

John La Farge · 1908–9

Public domainThe Met
L'Eglise de St. Pierre à Rome (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome), by Chez Daumont, active 18th century

L'Eglise de St. Pierre à Rome (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome)

Chez Daumont, active 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints above Predella Panels

The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints above Predella Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window

Design for Stained Glass Window

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with the Entombment

Stained Glass Panel with the Entombment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window

Design for Stained Glass Window

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with the Nativity

Stained Glass Panel with the Nativity

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Stained glass window panel, by John C. Wolf

Stained glass window panel

John C. Wolf · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · 1444

Public domainThe Met
Welcome Panel

Welcome Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Ornamental Panels, by John La Farge, American, 1835–1910

Design for Stained Glass Ornamental Panels

John La Farge, American, 1835–1910 · 1890–1900

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. 682 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 433677 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 16:10 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.