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 “Chez Jubert” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:39 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.

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.

Solidago gigantea Aiton

Solidago gigantea Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Railings for Chapels, from "Clostures de Chapelles"

Railings for Chapels, from "Clostures de Chapelles"

Artist not stated in the record · 1659

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling cutlery set, by Chez Aucoc, France, established 1821

Traveling cutlery set

Chez Aucoc, France, established 1821 · 1819–1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cahier de Balançoires Chinoises, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Cahier de Balançoires Chinoises

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1770–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze: Trophies of Arms and Putti

Frieze: Trophies of Arms and Putti

Artist not stated in the record · 1671

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grille, probably from the series "Héré Plans et Elevations de la Place Royale De Nancy... 1753 A Paris Chéz J.C. François

Grille, probably from the series "Héré Plans et Elevations de la Place Royale De Nancy... 1753 A Paris Chéz J.C. François

Artist not stated in the record · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grille, probably from the series "Héré Plans et Elevations de la Place Royale De Nancy... 1753 A Paris Chéz J.C. François

Grille, probably from the series "Héré Plans et Elevations de la Place Royale De Nancy... 1753 A Paris Chéz J.C. François

Artist not stated in the record · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grille, probably from the series "Héré Plans et Elevations de la Place Royale De Nancy... 1753 A Paris Chéz J.C. François

Grille, probably from the series "Héré Plans et Elevations de la Place Royale De Nancy... 1753 A Paris Chéz J.C. François

Artist not stated in the record · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue du Chateau de St. Germain en Laye (View of Saint Germain-en-Laye Palace), by Chez Daumont, active 18th century

Vue du Chateau de St. Germain en Laye (View of Saint Germain-en-Laye Palace)

Chez Daumont, active 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan Coupe et Elévations d’une Melonnière éxécutée des chez Mr. J.B. Paulée à Douay, dépt. Du Nord, d’après les Déssins de Mr. Belanger fils, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan Coupe et Elévations d’une Melonnière éxécutée des chez Mr. J.B. Paulée à Douay, dépt. Du Nord, d’après les Déssins de Mr. Belanger fils

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les Quatre Chausseurs Chez le Cure Arlotto, by François Forster, French, born Le Locle, Switzerland 1790-died Paris, France 1872

Les Quatre Chausseurs Chez le Cure Arlotto

François Forster, French, born Le Locle, Switzerland 1790-died Paris, France 1872 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Con Vois Hollandois, by Chez Basset, French

Con Vois Hollandois

Chez Basset, French

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. 404 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 20:39 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.