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 “Tabernacle Frame” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:16 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.
Tabernacle frame, by del Tasso

Tabernacle frame

del Tasso · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Louisa Catherine Adams Clement, by Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950

Louisa Catherine Adams Clement

Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Tabernacle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1406

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. William T. Evans and Her Son, by Henry O. Walker, born Boston, MA 1843-died Belmont, MA 1929

Mrs. William T. Evans and Her Son

Henry O. Walker, born Boston, MA 1843-died Belmont, MA 1929 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Elevation of an Altar with Alternative Suggestions, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Design for the Elevation of an Altar with Alternative Suggestions

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1700–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a tabernacle frame

Part of a tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Angel, by Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921

Angel

Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged arched cassetta frame and arched tabernacle frame

Engaged arched cassetta frame and arched tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1465 and 1490 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an Altar

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation., by Reinhold Vasters

Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation.

Reinhold Vasters · second half 16th century (panels); ca. 1865–90 (frame)

Public domainThe Met
Votive Tabernacle Shrine

Votive Tabernacle Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Altar

Project for an Altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The elevation of an altar with two alternative suggestions

The elevation of an altar with two alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · style late 16th century, made 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar mensa, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Altar mensa

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · style 16th century, made ca. 1920

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for an altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sketches for an altar

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

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. 73 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. 15685 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-31 02:16 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.