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 “Engaged cassetta frame” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 09:28 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.
Engaged cassetta frame

Engaged cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Two Chimneypiece Designs, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Two Chimneypiece Designs

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged cassetta frame on a polyptych panel, by Siena

Engaged cassetta frame on a polyptych panel

Siena · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged arched cassetta frame

Engaged arched cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1460–70

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Coupe d'une Gallerie Ornée de figures et de Vases, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plan et Coupe d'une Gallerie Ornée de figures et de Vases

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged arched cassetta frame and arched tabernacle frame

Engaged arched cassetta frame and arched tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1465 and 1490 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Cat and Dragonfly Silhouette, by Ira Blount

Cat and Dragonfly Silhouette

Ira Blount · 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
L’ÉCOLE DES FILLES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

L’ÉCOLE DES FILLES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassetta frame

Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassetta frame

Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassetta frame

Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassetta frame

Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Red Fish Paper Cutting, by Ira Blount

Red Fish Paper Cutting

Ira Blount · 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassetta frame

Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
In the Salvage Depot at St. Pierre, by Smith, J. Andre

In the Salvage Depot at St. Pierre

Smith, J. Andre · 1918-07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Flower Silhouette, by Ira Blount

Flower Silhouette

Ira Blount · 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged molding

Engaged molding

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Wood Carving of a Tall Ship, by Ira Blount

Wood Carving of a Tall Ship

Ira Blount · 1982

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. 528 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. 16889 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-31 09:28 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.