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 “Arabesque Design for a Panel” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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.
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design for a Panel

Arabesque Design for a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheval fire screen, by Thomas Moore

Cheval fire screen

Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design for a Panel

Arabesque Design for a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Panel

Design for a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel Design, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Arabesque Panel Design

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Design for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Arabesque Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookstand, by Charles-Auguste Questel

Bookstand

Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered panel, by Wari artist(s)

Feathered panel

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Panel Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Arabesque Panel Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1775–88

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. 2307 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2093206 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 2026-09-03 15:09 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.