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. 16 shown for “Three Sections of Cloister Arcade” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:07 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.
Three Sections of Cloister Arcade

Three Sections of Cloister Arcade

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a church

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a church

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Proposed Arcade Railway Under Broadway, New York, by Ferdinand Mayer and Sons

Proposed Arcade Railway Under Broadway, New York

Ferdinand Mayer and Sons · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of an Ornamental Panel

Section of an Ornamental Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate in Nouveaux Livre de Paysages (New Book of Landscapes), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Plate in Nouveaux Livre de Paysages (New Book of Landscapes)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Arcaded Palace Hall

Stage Design, Arcaded Palace Hall

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of the Virgin

Bust of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

Public domainThe Met
View of the Porta Aurea, Palace of Diocletian, Split

View of the Porta Aurea, Palace of Diocletian, Split

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist, by Baldassare degli Embriachi

Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist

Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo, by Master of Charles of Durazzo

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo

Master of Charles of Durazzo · 1381–82

Public domainThe Met
Organ Case with Arms of P

Organ Case with Arms of P

Artist not stated in the record · 1655–67

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. 75 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. 2870993 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 23:07 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.