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 Printed Vertical Border” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:47 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.
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Printed Vertical Border

Design for a Printed Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Trial-proof for a printed vertical border

Trial-proof for a printed vertical border

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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
Project for an embroidered vertical border

Project for an embroidered vertical border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1808

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

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ...., by Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville

The Theory and Practice of Gardening : Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. ....

Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville · 1712

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse, by Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona

Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse

Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close Helmet for the Tourney, by Daniel Hopfer

Close Helmet for the Tourney

Daniel Hopfer · dated 1552

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Design for an Embroidered Vertical Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–15

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. 9407 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. 2182062 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 2026-09-08 10:47 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.