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. 12 shown for “Bronze grotesque” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:02 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Plan et Elevation d'un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

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

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686-1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Furniture, by André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732

Designs for Furniture

André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain in bronze, by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Fountain in bronze

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament: grotesque animal mask

Ornament: grotesque animal mask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-771 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament: grotesque animal mask

Ornament: grotesque animal mask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-771 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan, Elevation et Profil d'un Buffet de Marbre et de Bronze, au milieu du quel est un Tableau et aux côtez deux Niches, dans lesquelles il y a des Cascades, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Plan, Elevation et Profil d'un Buffet de Marbre et de Bronze, au milieu du quel est un Tableau et aux côtez deux Niches, dans lesquelles il y a des Cascades

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door knocker

Door knocker

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732

Title Page

André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 03 “Jupiter,” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 03 “Jupiter,” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesques

Grotesques

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10463 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 16:02 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.