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. 19 shown for “Hexagonal table” — 56 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:26 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.
Hexagonal table

Hexagonal table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for Round Dining Table on Octagonal Base, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Round Dining Table on Octagonal Base

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (table à écrire), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Writing table (table à écrire)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and basin, by Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay

Ewer and basin

Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay · 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Patchwork cover

Patchwork cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkwell (part of a set), by Asprey

Inkwell (part of a set)

Asprey · 1851

Public domainThe Met
End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket canteen (traveling set), by Charles Overing

Pocket canteen (traveling set)

Charles Overing · 1709/10

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton clock in the form of an eagle

Automaton clock in the form of an eagle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment and hexagon

Fragment and hexagon

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagons

Hexagons

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abstract Hexagons

Abstract Hexagons

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th - mid 19th 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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12166 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-08 12:26 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.