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 “Ten Elements for East Window of an Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:58 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.
Ten Elements for East Window of an Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Ten Elements for East Window of an Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Peacocks and Peonies II, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Peacocks and Peonies II

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Peacocks and Peonies I, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Peacocks and Peonies I

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Windows: Chamber Music Hall - Back of Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Stained Glass Windows: Chamber Music Hall - Back of Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Model of Sudbury Hall

Model of Sudbury Hall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window: Light in Chapter Room, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Stained Glass Window: Light in Chapter Room, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Sketches from Chenonceaux, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Architectural Sketches from Chenonceaux

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Public domainThe Met
ART DU BRODEUR, by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786

ART DU BRODEUR

Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Windows: Chamber Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Stained Glass Windows: Chamber Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity, by Gerard David

The Nativity

Gerard David · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window: Over Main Entrance - Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Stained Glass Window: Over Main Entrance - Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Turkish Patrol, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

The Turkish Patrol

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · ca. 1855–56

Public domainThe Met
Tanagra (The Builders, New York), by Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935

Tanagra (The Builders, New York)

Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935 · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window: Over Main Entrance - Lateral Building, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for Stained Glass Window: Over Main Entrance - Lateral Building, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · late 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. 28 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. 4016821 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-02 07:58 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.