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 “Couch Table” — 63 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:23 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.
Couch Table

Couch Table

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Furniture Designs

Furniture Designs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze furniture attachments with silver inlay

Bronze furniture attachments with silver inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of husband and wife, by Unidentified artist

Portrait of husband and wife

Unidentified artist · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Vaulted Ceiling, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for interior, by Charles de Brocktorff

Design for interior

Charles de Brocktorff · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Sitting room with a carpet of geometric design, by McMillen, Inc.

Sitting room with a carpet of geometric design

McMillen, Inc. · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for interior, by Charles de Brocktorff

Design for interior

Charles de Brocktorff · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest

Saint Martin Offering the Wine Cup to the Priest

Artist not stated in the record · 1430–35

Public domainThe Met
Grandma's Parlor, by Wanda Gág, born New Ulm, MN 1893-died New York City 1946

Grandma's Parlor

Wanda Gág, born New Ulm, MN 1893-died New York City 1946 · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Wheat Sheaves

Panel with Wheat Sheaves

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Boudoir, Chateau de Chaalis, by Walter Gay, born Hingham, MA 1856-died Breau, France 1937

Boudoir, Chateau de Chaalis

Walter Gay, born Hingham, MA 1856-died Breau, France 1937 · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Jeweled Sculpture of Antony, Cleopatra, and Attendant

Jeweled Sculpture of Antony, Cleopatra, and Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Labors of the Months

Labors of the Months

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Toni Hildprant's Room

Toni Hildprant's Room

Artist not stated in the record · August 19, 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary stele with banquet scene

Limestone funerary stele with banquet scene

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios, by Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios

Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hortensia, by Fernand Khnopff

Hortensia

Fernand Khnopff · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right].

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone group: banquet

Limestone group: banquet

Artist not stated in the record · end of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1801

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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 9 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. 12406 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 03:23 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.