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 “André Mollet” — 44 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:39 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.
Design for a fountain and four square parterres for a pleasure garden, by André Mollet

Design for a fountain and four square parterres for a pleasure garden

André Mollet · 1651

Public domainThe Met
Lambris d’antichambre du dessein de Mr. Mollet architect, by André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787

Lambris d’antichambre du dessein de Mr. Mollet architect

André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art, by Michel van Lochom

Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art

Michel van Lochom · 1638

Public domainThe Met
Monsieur and Madame Mollet, by William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938

Monsieur and Madame Mollet

William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 · before 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Parterre du Jardin de la Royne mere a Luxembourg, in "Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art", by Michel van Lochom

Grand Parterre du Jardin de la Royne mere a Luxembourg, in "Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art"

Michel van Lochom · 1638

Public domainThe Met
Micromacromia afra

Micromacromia afra

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthetrum sagitta

Orthetrum sagitta

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthetrum brachiale

Orthetrum brachiale

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthetrum sagitta

Orthetrum sagitta

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sapho bicolor

Sapho bicolor

Artist not stated in the record · 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthetrum brachiale

Orthetrum brachiale

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chlorocypha rubida

Chlorocypha rubida

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sapho orichalcea

Sapho orichalcea

Artist not stated in the record · 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Umma longistigma

Umma longistigma

Artist not stated in the record · 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guzmania sanguinea (André) André ex Mez var. sanguinea

Guzmania sanguinea (André) André ex Mez var. sanguinea

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Dec 1959

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 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. 18345 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 05:39 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.