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 Sofa with Alternative Suggestions” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:55 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.
Sofa, by Duncan Phyfe

Sofa

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1810–20

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
Sofa (part of a set), by Filippo Pelagio Palagi

Sofa (part of a set)

Filippo Pelagio Palagi · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sofa, with Alternative Suggestions, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for Sofa, with Alternative Suggestions

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa (canapé à confidents), by Claude I Sené

Sofa (canapé à confidents)

Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Carlo Amati, Italian, 1776 – 1852

Drawing

Carlo Amati, Italian, 1776 – 1852 · ca. 1802

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

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Sofa, Chairs, and Vanity Table

Designs for a Sofa, Chairs, and Vanity Table

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

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

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

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

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions, by Unknown, Austrian

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions

Unknown, Austrian · 1835–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Wallpaper with Alternative Pattern, by Unknown, Austrian

Design for a Wallpaper with Alternative Pattern

Unknown, Austrian · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by Julius Dessoir

Sofa

Julius Dessoir · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Ceiling with Alternative Suggestions, Possibly for the Entrance Hall, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for a Painted Ceiling with Alternative Suggestions, Possibly for the Entrance Hall

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1801 or earlier

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
Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Reinhold Vasters

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Reinhold Vasters · probably second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

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
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions, by Unknown, Austrian

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions

Unknown, Austrian · 1835–50

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. 3191 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. 2175290 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 2026-09-04 07:55 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.