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 Mirror Frame” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:59 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.
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mirror Frame

Design for a Mirror Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1775

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

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for a mirror frame

Design for a mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mirror Frame, with Alternative Suggestion, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Mirror Frame, with Alternative Suggestion

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mirror Frame with Monogram of Marie-Antoinette, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Mirror Frame with Monogram of Marie-Antoinette

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1787–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a carved mirror frame

Design for a carved mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Carved Mirror Frame, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Carved Mirror Frame

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · before 1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tondo mirror frame, by Benedetto da Maiano

Tondo mirror frame

Benedetto da Maiano · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Design, by Georg Michael Roscher, German, 1700–1775

Rocaille Design

Georg Michael Roscher, German, 1700–1775 · mid- 18th century

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
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame, by del Tasso

Tabernacle frame

del Tasso · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Wall Mirror Frame Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Wall Mirror Frame Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

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 Mantlepiece and Overmantle, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tondo mirror frame, by Italian, Siena

Tondo mirror frame

Italian, Siena · ca. 1490–1500

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Central Mirror, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Central Mirror

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design, by N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century

Chimneypiece Design

N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century · 1775–87

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. 2892 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. 2094784 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 03:59 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.