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 “Box in book form with drawer, Album” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:22 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.
Box in book form with drawer, Album

Box in book form with drawer, Album

Artist not stated in the record · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Reading Chair

Reading Chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1700

Public domainThe Met
TROISIEME LIVRE de forms Cartels et Rocailles, Ornés de Figures de Modes, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

TROISIEME LIVRE de forms Cartels et Rocailles, Ornés de Figures de Modes

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by John Thurston

Box

John Thurston · 1660–85

Public domainThe Met
SUITE DE CHEMINÉES DE DIFFÉRENTES FORMES dans le Goût Antique Composées et Gravées par Le Canu, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

SUITE DE CHEMINÉES DE DIFFÉRENTES FORMES dans le Goût Antique Composées et Gravées par Le Canu

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work box in the form of a peacock

Work box in the form of a peacock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Elevation and Profile of a Wall Fountain, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation and Profile of a Wall Fountain

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk

Desk

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
QUATRIEME LIVRE DE FORMES Ornées de Rocailles Cartels Figures Oyseaux et Dragons Chinois, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

QUATRIEME LIVRE DE FORMES Ornées de Rocailles Cartels Figures Oyseaux et Dragons Chinois

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Nine Urns, One with Alternate Suggestions, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Sketches of Nine Urns, One with Alternate Suggestions

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Wennefer

Sarcophagus of Wennefer

Artist not stated in the record · 380–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea chest, by Abraham Roentgen

Tea chest

Abraham Roentgen · ca. 1750–55

Public domainThe Met
Drop Front Desk, by Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882

Drop Front Desk

Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by J. P. M., Paris, France

Box

J. P. M., Paris, France · 1766–67

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box

Writing Box

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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. 495 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7467947 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 2026-09-04 23:22 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.