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. 22 shown for “Fragment of a Door Jamb with Geometric and Vegetal Motifs” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:04 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.
Fragment of a Door Jamb with Geometric and Vegetal Motifs

Fragment of a Door Jamb with Geometric and Vegetal Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Drop Front Desk, by Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882

Drop Front Desk

Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Minbar Doors

Pair of Minbar Doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation Géometral d’une Porte Cochere, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Plan et Elévation Géometral d’une Porte Cochere

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'

Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Porte Cochere avec son Plan, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Porte Cochere avec son Plan

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · 1760–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric and Vegetal Motifs (back)

Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric and Vegetal Motifs (back)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Porte Cochere avec Atigue, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

Porte Cochere avec Atigue, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · ca. 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Porte Cochere avec Atigue, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

Porte Cochere avec Atigue, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · 1760–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d’une Porte Cochere, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

Plan et Elévation d’une Porte Cochere

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door Mount

Door Mount

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Coverlet fragment

Coverlet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door Mount

Door Mount

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door Mount

Door Mount

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Napkin fragment

Napkin fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door Mount

Door Mount

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BC–800 AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation and Plan of a Carriage Entrance, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Elevation and Plan of a Carriage Entrance

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

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. 266 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4076293 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 12:04 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.