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 “Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904” — 62 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:57 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.
"Autumn Crocus" Vase, by Emile Gallé

"Autumn Crocus" Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Purple, yellow, by Gallé

Purple, yellow

Gallé · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, by Emile Gallé

Cup

Emile Gallé · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Green, brown, landscape, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Green, brown, landscape

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1890–1900

Public domainThe Met
lavender, by Gallé

lavender

Gallé · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with lid, by Emile Gallé

Box with lid

Emile Gallé · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Yellow, bees, by Gallé

Yellow, bees

Gallé · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Emile Gallé

Dish

Emile Gallé · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Red, amber, by Gallé

Red, amber

Gallé · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · 1884–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Pink, brown, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Pink, brown

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Tray, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Tray

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Emile Gallé

Vase

Emile Gallé · 1896

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Ombellifères" (cow parsley) Cabinet, by Emile Gallé

"Ombellifères" (cow parsley) Cabinet

Emile Gallé · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a dog, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Figure of a dog

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · 1870–80

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 3 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. 162496 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-02 07:57 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.