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. 12 shown for “False door niche block of Merykhufu” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:45 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Nouveau dessein d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche avec portes de degagemens pour les garderobbes, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Nouveau dessein d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche avec portes de degagemens pour les garderobbes

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nouveau dessein du côte de la cheminée d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche du dessein du Sr. Blondel, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Nouveau dessein du côte de la cheminée d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche du dessein du Sr. Blondel

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1725–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Interior of a Textile Factory, by Unknown

The Interior of a Textile Factory

Unknown · 1720–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Door Frame, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Door Frame

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne, au Château de Versailles / Plan du premier étage de l’Escalier de la Reyne, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne, au Château de Versailles / Plan du premier étage de l’Escalier de la Reyne

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727–42

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Large Two-Part Cabinet Built into Niche, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Large Two-Part Cabinet Built into Niche

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorcase, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Doorcase

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne au Château de Versailles / Plan au rez-de-chaussée de l’Escalier de la Reyne, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Coupe de l’Escalier de la Reyne au Château de Versailles / Plan au rez-de-chaussée de l’Escalier de la Reyne

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727–42

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elevation d'une Salle à manger Ornée d'une niche avec un Poële, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plan et Elevation d'une Salle à manger Ornée d'une niche avec un Poële

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decoration de lambris avec un renfoncement en Niche pour un Boudoir, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Decoration de lambris avec un renfoncement en Niche pour un Boudoir

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projet de Porte d'Appartement fait pour M.e la Baronne de Bezenval, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet de Porte d'Appartement fait pour M.e la Baronne de Bezenval

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Sideboard with Glass Door Cabinet Above, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Glass Door Cabinet Above

A.N. Davenport Co. · October 25, 1900

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2863065 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 2026-08-27 01:45 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.