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. 23 shown for “Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:40 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.
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings

Two Stage Designs, Interiors of Antique Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Buildings

Stage Design, Antique Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Container with Figures under an Arcade

Container with Figures under an Arcade

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design of Antique Buildings and Details, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design of Antique Buildings and Details

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Building, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Interior of Oriental Building

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

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

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Ruined Buildings with Obelisks

Stage Design, Group of Ruined Buildings with Obelisks

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Exterior of Temples, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Exterior of Temples

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style

Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style

Artist not stated in the record · after 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Hall in Antique Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Interior of Hall in Antique Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Antique Ruins, Interior

Stage Design, Antique Ruins, Interior

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parade Shield Depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul

Parade Shield Depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th 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. 524 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3222617 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 2026-09-05 08:40 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.