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 “Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 02:54 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.
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B

Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B

Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing Venus or Thetis with Her Nymphs and a Fountain, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing Venus or Thetis with Her Nymphs and a Fountain

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (table à écrire), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Writing table (table à écrire)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing a River God, a Nymph, and a Fountain, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing a River God, a Nymph, and a Fountain

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
CINQUIEME LIVRE D'ORNAMENS Inventés Par J.A. Meissonnier et Gravé par Huquier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

CINQUIEME LIVRE D'ORNAMENS Inventés Par J.A. Meissonnier et Gravé par Huquier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair), by Alexandre Evariste Fragonard

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)

Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Sea Motifs

Cartouche with Sea Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1739–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestand (one of a pair)

Candlestand (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Designs, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Designs

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table, by Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

Writing table

Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Corsica, by Wood & Challinor

Corsica

Wood & Challinor · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Commode

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Samuel Troxel

Plate

Samuel Troxel · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Designs, by Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782

Cartouche Designs

Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782 · 1759

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. 505 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. 1121673 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 2026-09-07 02:54 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.