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. 18 shown for “Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 21:16 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.
Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)

Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735–39

Public domainThe Met
Prieuses / Prieuses pliantes, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Prieuses / Prieuses pliantes

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Angels

Study of Angels

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)

Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)

Artist not stated in the record · 1778 - 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White and lavender gauze floral curtains, by Unidentified

White and lavender gauze floral curtains

Unidentified · Late 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding stool

Folding stool

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Iron Bedstead of King Og, Plate 324, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Iron Bedstead of King Og, Plate 324, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mausoleum

Design for a Mausoleum

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Section of a Circular Pavilion

Section of a Circular Pavilion

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Plate 1954, Modes de Paris (Paris Fashion), Petit Courrier des Dames, Journal des Modes (Little Ladies' Mail, Fashion Journal), by Samuel and Joseph Fuller, London, England

Plate 1954, Modes de Paris (Paris Fashion), Petit Courrier des Dames, Journal des Modes (Little Ladies' Mail, Fashion Journal)

Samuel and Joseph Fuller, London, England · August 31, 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé), by Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)

Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Public domainThe Met
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

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. 273 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. 3968588 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 2026-08-30 21:16 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.