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. 14 shown for “Triple Choir Stall with Canopy” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:40 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.
Triple Choir Stall with Canopy

Triple Choir Stall with Canopy

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Choir Stalls, Chichester, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Choir Stalls, Chichester

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopied Seat

Canopied Seat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Design for Five Choir Stalls

Design for Five Choir Stalls

Artist not stated in the record · 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Pilate Washing his Hands

Panel with Pilate Washing his Hands

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of the Choir of a Florentine Church for a Medici Funeral Celebration, by Alfonso Parigi, Italian, 1606 – 1656

Decoration of the Choir of a Florentine Church for a Medici Funeral Celebration

Alfonso Parigi, Italian, 1606 – 1656 · 1620-1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of the Wall of a Nunnery Chapel with the Choir

Section of the Wall of a Nunnery Chapel with the Choir

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lit en chaire à precher, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit en chaire à precher

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Choir With Rood Screen in Church of Notre Dame

View of Choir With Rood Screen in Church of Notre Dame

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An altar with a structure for the exhibition of a cross, probably a Holy Sepulchre

An altar with a structure for the exhibition of a cross, probably a Holy Sepulchre

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water color; A vegetable stall, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; A vegetable stall

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Livre Curieux et Utile pour Les Sçavans, et Artists. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres, Simples, doubles et triples., by Nicolas Verien, French, active 1685 – 1724

Livre Curieux et Utile pour Les Sçavans, et Artists. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres, Simples, doubles et triples.

Nicolas Verien, French, active 1685 – 1724 · 1685

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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 250338 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 22:40 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.