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. 23 shown for “Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 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 François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style

Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style

Artist not stated in the record · 1825

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

Bookstand

Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chatelaine with Watch, by Alexis Falize, French, 1811–1898

Design for a Chatelaine with Watch

Alexis Falize, French, 1811–1898 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Red Room, Schloss Fischbach, by Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863

The Red Room, Schloss Fischbach

Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863 · ca. 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decor Chasse et Peche, by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863

Decor Chasse et Peche

Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1859–65

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate), by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, by Giambologna

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar

Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
L'Ouie, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

L'Ouie

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant in the form of a mermaid, by Reinhold Vasters

Pendant in the form of a mermaid

Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Public domainThe Met
Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, by Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880

Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin

Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Kenyon Van Kock - Van Dyck (Self-Portrait with Dog), by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Kenyon Van Kock - Van Dyck (Self-Portrait with Dog)

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Renaissance-Style Sideboard in Plan and Elevation

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Printed Fabric or Wallaper

Design for a Woven or Printed Fabric or Wallaper

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sofa with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Sofa with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Rendering for Bliss Family Mausoleum, by Hughson Hawley, American, 1850–1936

Rendering for Bliss Family Mausoleum

Hughson Hawley, American, 1850–1936 · 1901

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. 1289 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 988 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-04 05:32 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.