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 “Design for Dados” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:23 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.
Spoon holder, by Christopher Dresser

Spoon holder

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1878–81

Public domainThe Met
Design for Dados

Design for Dados

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookstand, by Charles-Auguste Questel

Bookstand

Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Mantlepiece and Dado for a Room in the Villa Digne, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Mantlepiece and Dado for a Room in the Villa Digne

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with figures in arbor, by Cornelis Pronk

Plate with figures in arbor

Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament, by Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725

Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · 1680–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by Jean Le Pautre

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate depicting a lady with parasol, by Cornelis Pronk

Plate depicting a lady with parasol

Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1734–37

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 26321 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 492570 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 2026-09-01 11:23 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.