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 “Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar lamp

Altar lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Kinnari

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Kinnari

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Tomb lamp in the form of a seated figure holding a child

Tomb lamp in the form of a seated figure holding a child

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp

Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–71

Public domainThe Met
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle, lamp, and table, by Simon Pantin I

Teakettle, lamp, and table

Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rothschild lamp, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Rothschild lamp

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Project for Book Illustration; A Panel with Attributes of Sciences and of a Hero

Project for Book Illustration; A Panel with Attributes of Sciences and of a Hero

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hanging lamp in the form of a comic actor

Terracotta hanging lamp in the form of a comic actor

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Oil Lamps

Designs for Oil Lamps

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Platt's Oil Hanging Lamp Patent Model

Platt's Oil Hanging Lamp Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1836-10-08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Kinnari

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Kinnari

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 10th century or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of an Oil Lamp

Design for the Base of an Oil Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging Lamp

Hanging Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier. Lampe., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chandelier. Lampe.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for an Oil Lamp

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sanctuary Lamp, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacock

Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lampe d'Eglise (Church Lamp), plate 83, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Lampe d'Eglise (Church Lamp), plate 83, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

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

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. 1222 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. 7483533 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 21:06 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.