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 Woven Corner with Neoclassical Motifs” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 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.
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Corner with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Corner with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Design for Woven Fabric with Neoclassical Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Pour des Bordures, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Pour des Bordures

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Pour Orner des Cadres ou Bordures, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Pour Orner des Cadres ou Bordures

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

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
Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Modèles à l’usage des Bordures, Commodes, Tables, Poëles, Balustres &c, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Modèles à l’usage des Bordures, Commodes, Tables, Poëles, Balustres &c

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Corner Motif for Woven or Embroidered Border

Design for Corner Motif for Woven or Embroidered Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Corner Motif of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Corner Motif of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE formant encoignure et orné de figures en bas-reliefs

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

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. 796 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. 653948 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-02 07:07 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.