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 “Three friezes for an overdoor” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:41 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.
Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief

Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three friezes for an overdoor

Three friezes for an overdoor

Artist not stated in the record · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Possible Design for an Overdoor Frieze

Possible Design for an Overdoor Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Possible Design for an Overdoor Frieze

Possible Design for an Overdoor Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Profil du dedans de la cour et du petit Jardin de l’Hostel de Liancourt, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Profil du dedans de la cour et du petit Jardin de l’Hostel de Liancourt

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Frieze with the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes

Fragment of a Frieze with the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Interior

Design for an Interior

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces

Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
L’ORDRE DORIQUE, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

L’ORDRE DORIQUE

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a griffin and a floral frieze

Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a griffin and a floral frieze

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an entrance wall to a music or dance hall

Design for an entrance wall to a music or dance hall

Artist not stated in the record · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incised furniture plaque with a frieze of lotus blossoms and buds

Incised furniture plaque with a frieze of lotus blossoms and buds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevations of a Door, Door Frames, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Elevations of a Door, Door Frames, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Overdoor, by Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818

Design for an Overdoor

Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818 · 1785-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), by Metope Painter

Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

Metope Painter · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Overdoor and Chimney, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Design for an Overdoor and Chimney

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1740–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, by Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima)

Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy

Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1513

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Paneling, Friezes, and Overdoors, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Designs for Paneling, Friezes, and Overdoors

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Entablature Designs, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Entablature Designs

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · mid- 17th–early 18th 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. 233 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. 517495 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 2026-09-03 19:41 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.