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 “Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
From a frieze called "The Pines", by Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951

From a frieze called "The Pines"

Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · dated 707 AH/1308 CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · dated 734 AH/1334 CE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Fountain with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stage Curtain: Temple of Fame, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Stage Curtain: Temple of Fame

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Gate of a town, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Gate of a town

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 824 AH/1421 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Prison Doorway Erected by Pope Pius VI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Two Designs for Prison Doorway Erected by Pope Pius VI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from a Frieze

Tile from a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile (fragment)

Wall tile (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from a Frieze

Tile from a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Printed Certifiate of a Religious Ceremony for Children, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Design for a Printed Certifiate of a Religious Ceremony for Children

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from a Frieze

Tile from a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden), by Unknown, Italian

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)

Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

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. 627 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. 470625 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 06:30 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.