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 a Chimneypiece” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:20 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.
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by Jean Le Pautre

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Chimneypiece

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

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

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece

Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Chimneypiece

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece

Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Chimneypiece

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece, by John Yenn

Design for a Chimneypiece

John Yenn · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece with Overmantel

Design for a Chimneypiece with Overmantel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece, by John Yenn

Design for a Chimneypiece

John Yenn · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Sir William Chambers

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers · 1740–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Sir William Chambers

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers · 1740–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Unknown

Design for a Chimneypiece

Unknown · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Sir William Chambers

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers · 1740–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

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. 22299 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2091780 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 06:20 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.