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. 20 shown for “Factory of Leroy” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:26 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.
Teapot, by Arij de Milde

Teapot

Arij de Milde · 1671–1708

Public domainThe Met
wig stand, by Factory of Leroy

wig stand

Factory of Leroy · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with a thistle medallion, by John Dwight

Bottle with a thistle medallion

John Dwight · ca. 1675–76

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Textile Printing Factory

Sketch of a Textile Printing Factory

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Chinese, by Saint-Cloud factory

Seated Chinese

Saint-Cloud factory · ca. 1730–40

Public domainThe Met
Factory mark

Factory mark

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a standing Chinese man, by Villeroy

Figure of a standing Chinese man

Villeroy · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with factory stamp

Fragment with factory stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with factory stamp

Fragment with factory stamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri with cover, by Niderviller

Potpourri with cover

Niderviller · 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a factory (?) at edge of river, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a factory (?) at edge of river

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese musicians, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Chinese musicians

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Worked metal

Worked metal

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoulao, by Chantilly

Shoulao

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Drill

Drill

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin family, by Villeroy

Harlequin family

Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Thomas Tucker

Vase

Thomas Tucker · 1828–38

Public domainThe Met
Vase with cover (part of a garniture), by Lambertus van Eenhoorn

Vase with cover (part of a garniture)

Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
The Factory Village, by Julian Alden Weir

The Factory Village

Julian Alden Weir · 1897

Public domainThe Met
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. 8603 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2863835 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:26 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.