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 “Vertical panel” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:26 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.

Embroideries of Mrs. C. W. Holmes, Jr.: Pussy WIllows, Orchard, and Drifting Snow, by Alfred Laurens Brennan, American, 1853–1921

Embroideries of Mrs. C. W. Holmes, Jr.: Pussy WIllows, Orchard, and Drifting Snow

Alfred Laurens Brennan, American, 1853–1921 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Two Vertical Panels, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Designs for Two Vertical Panels

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738 and 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Project for the decoration of a vertical panel

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Ceiling Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Ceiling Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

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. 16691 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 2026-09-08 12:26 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.