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. 12 shown for “Tondo Group” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:09 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Erminia and Vafrino Tending the Wounded Tancred after the Battle of Argento [Tancrède secouru par Herminie et Vafrin après le combat d'Argante], by Jean-François de Troy, French, 1679–1752

Erminia and Vafrino Tending the Wounded Tancred after the Battle of Argento [Tancrède secouru par Herminie et Vafrin après le combat d'Argante]

Jean-François de Troy, French, 1679–1752 · 1720–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere, by Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere

Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Plate or a Tondo: Soldiers supplicant before a Roman General, by Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian, 1529 - 1566

Design for a Plate or a Tondo: Soldiers supplicant before a Roman General

Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian, 1529 - 1566 · mid-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative Project for Ceiling: Tondo with Triumph of Cerus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project for Ceiling: Tondo with Triumph of Cerus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680

Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680 · 1670–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Justice and Peace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Justice and Peace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Oct 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porphyrosiphon notarisii Kütz. ex Gomont

Porphyrosiphon notarisii Kütz. ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porphyrosiphon notarisii Kütz. ex Gomont

Porphyrosiphon notarisii Kütz. ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Nov 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coccochloris stagnina

Coccochloris stagnina

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1949

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 124450 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 01:09 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.