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 “Doorknocker” — 32 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:48 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.
Doorknocker

Doorknocker

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century or later

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Doorknocker

Project for a Doorknocker

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorknocker

Doorknocker

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Doorknocker

Project for a Doorknocker

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorknocker with a Triton and a Nereid

Doorknocker with a Triton and a Nereid

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for two doorknockers, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for two doorknockers

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorknocker with Prudence and Fortitude joined eternally

Doorknocker with Prudence and Fortitude joined eternally

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Heurtoirs à Boucles, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Heurtoirs à Boucles

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup

Stirrup

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Heurtoirs à Boucles, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Heurtoirs à Boucles

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door-Knocker (?) With Two Nymphs, by Giacomo Rossi

Design for a Door-Knocker (?) With Two Nymphs

Giacomo Rossi · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Heurtoirs à Boucles, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Heurtoirs à Boucles

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dinar of Tughril (r. 1040–63)

Dinar of Tughril (r. 1040–63)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 444 AH/1052–53 CE

Public domainThe Met
Heurtoirs à Boucles, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Heurtoirs à Boucles

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick Base with Interlacing Dragons

Candlestick Base with Interlacing Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Heurtoirs et Boutons, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Heurtoirs et Boutons

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pluto and Cerberus, by Tiziano Aspetti

Pluto and Cerberus

Tiziano Aspetti · ca. 1588

Public domainThe Met
Heurtoirs et Boutons, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Heurtoirs et Boutons

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment with Double-Headed Eagles and Facing Lions

Textile Fragment with Double-Headed Eagles and Facing Lions

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a doorknocker

Project for a doorknocker

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with cover (perfume burner), by Angelo de' Rossi

Bowl with cover (perfume burner)

Angelo de' Rossi · 1599

Public domainThe Met
Designs for two doorknockers, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for two doorknockers

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Door Knocker and Metal Purse Frames, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Door Knocker and Metal Purse Frames

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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 13:48 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.