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 “Fireplace wall paneling from the Benjamin Hasbrouck House” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:17 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.
Fireplace wall paneling from the Benjamin Hasbrouck House

Fireplace wall paneling from the Benjamin Hasbrouck House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Title Page

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fireplace wall paneling from the John Hewlett House, by John Hewlett

Fireplace wall paneling from the John Hewlett House

John Hewlett · 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of the Fireplace Wall in Engrance Hall Hotel Roquelaure, Towards the Chapel, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Decoration of the Fireplace Wall in Engrance Hall Hotel Roquelaure, Towards the Chapel

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of the Bedroom Fireplace Wall at Hotel Roquelaure, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Decoration of the Bedroom Fireplace Wall at Hotel Roquelaure

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paneling from the parlor of Marmion, King George County, Virginia

Paneling from the parlor of Marmion, King George County, Virginia

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1756

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of the Fireplace Wall in Entrance Hall of Hotel Roquelaure, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Decoration of the Fireplace Wall in Entrance Hall of Hotel Roquelaure

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · ca. 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, by Gerard David

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother

Gerard David · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Designs for Various Ornaments], by Michelangelo Pergolesi

[Designs for Various Ornaments]

Michelangelo Pergolesi · 1777–92

Public domainThe Met
Profil et Elevation du dedans de la cour de l’Hostel du Commandeur du Gert du dessein de l’Architecte Mansart, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Profil et Elevation du dedans de la cour de l’Hostel du Commandeur du Gert du dessein de l’Architecte Mansart

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cupboard from a House in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Corner cupboard from a House in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1411014 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 2026-09-03 22:17 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.