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 “Dado Panel” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 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.

Dado

Dado

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado

Dado

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Paneling Designs, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Two Paneling Designs

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Elevation of the wall of a Private Chapel With the Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

The Elevation of the wall of a Private Chapel With the Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Decorative Panel for July Festival Architecture, by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

Design for Decorative Panel for July Festival Architecture

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior Wall Elevation, by L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century

Interior Wall Elevation

L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Design for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1725–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777-79

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

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. 8052 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 2026-08-28 01:01 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.