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 “Coffer” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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.
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses

Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar coffer

Altar coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Hall with Coffered Ceiling and Urns

Stage Design: Hall with Coffered Ceiling and Urns

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux), by Martin Carlin

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 16th or 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Wallace Wallpaper Co., by Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York

The Wallace Wallpaper Co.

Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 1613

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Décoration convenable pour un Cabinet;, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Plan et Décoration convenable pour un Cabinet;

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century with modern restorations

Public domainThe Met
Stage Curtain: Temple of Fame, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Temple of Fame

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies after Paintings by Perugino and Alfonso Lombardo in Bologna; sixteenth-century monument, Bologna, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Studies after Paintings by Perugino and Alfonso Lombardo in Bologna; sixteenth-century monument, Bologna

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper

Ceiling paper

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Dado

Dado

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffer

Coffer

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

Public domainThe Met
Senate Chamber, Parliament Building, Warsaw, Poland, by Victor Louis, French, 1731 - 1802

Senate Chamber, Parliament Building, Warsaw, Poland

Victor Louis, French, 1731 - 1802 · ca. 1765

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. 129 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. 153 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 23:10 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.