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. 15 shown for “West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah” — 43 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:26 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.
West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah

West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for the decoration of a chapel

Project for the decoration of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the West Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion at Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the West Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion at Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
West wall of the chapel of Nikauhor and Sekhemhathor

West wall of the chapel of Nikauhor and Sekhemhathor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with a Buffet-Niche, by Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792

Wall Elevation with a Buffet-Niche

Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777-79

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Elevation for an Antechamber or Salon, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Wall Elevation for an Antechamber or Salon

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cathedral Bays in Connection with Small Chapels, St. Patrick's Cathedral, by Charles T. Mathews

Cathedral Bays in Connection with Small Chapels, St. Patrick's Cathedral

Charles T. Mathews · June 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Niche with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Niche with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

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

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four Designs for Sepulchral Monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nouveau dessein d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche avec portes de degagemens pour les garderobbes, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Nouveau dessein d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche avec portes de degagemens pour les garderobbes

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777-79

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 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. 3504012 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 2026-08-26 23:26 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.