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. 24 shown for “Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:07 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.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Albert E. Robert's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model, missing back

Albert E. Robert's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model, missing back

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Albert E. Roberts's 1868 School Seat Patent Model

Albert E. Roberts's 1868 School Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
William A. Slaymaker's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

William A. Slaymaker's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
M. L. Holt and L. C. Abbott's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

M. L. Holt and L. C. Abbott's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
George W. Puterbaugh and Alfred Teal's 1876 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

George W. Puterbaugh and Alfred Teal's 1876 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
A. J. Hull's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

A. J. Hull's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model

Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome as Scholar, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Elijah Wilson's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Elijah Wilson's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Frank T. June's 1878 School Desk Connecting Improvement Patent Model

Frank T. June's 1878 School Desk Connecting Improvement Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Henry G. Sellman's 1871 Improved Frame for School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Henry G. Sellman's 1871 Improved Frame for School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

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. 45 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2672675 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 04:07 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.