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. 14 shown for “Denis Buffet” — 42 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:45 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.
Clarinet in E-flat, by Denis Buffet

Clarinet in E-flat

Denis Buffet · 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Buffet, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Design for a Buffet

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in A, by Buffet, Crampon & Cie.

Clarinet in A

Buffet, Crampon & Cie. · 1860–65

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Buffet, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Design for a Buffet

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevations de Buffet à dessus de Marbre, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevations de Buffet à dessus de Marbre

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Buffet, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Design for a Buffet

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevations de Buffet à dessus de Marbre, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevations de Buffet à dessus de Marbre

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet d’Orgue, dont le Porche est dans la feuille cy-dessous / Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet d’Orgue, dont le Porche est dans la feuille cy-dessous, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet d’Orgue, dont le Porche est dans la feuille cy-dessous / Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet d’Orgue, dont le Porche est dans la feuille cy-dessous

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1751–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elevation d’un Buffet dont la Corniche est ceintrée en S. avec un Pied-/cormier sur l’angle / Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet ceintré en Anse de Panier, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elevation d’un Buffet dont la Corniche est ceintrée en S. avec un Pied-/cormier sur l’angle / Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet ceintré en Anse de Panier

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet ceintré en S. / Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet ceintré en Anse de Panier, avec un Pilastre sur l’angle., by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet ceintré en S. / Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet ceintré en Anse de Panier, avec un Pilastre sur l’angle.

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1740–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Different Types of Buffets and Their Development, by André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791

Different Types of Buffets and Their Development

André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Names of the Main Parts of Which an Organ Buffet is Composed, by André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791

Names of the Main Parts of Which an Organ Buffet is Composed

André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Buffets, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Designs for Buffets

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 931 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-01 07:45 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.