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 “Incised furniture plaque with two figures in two registers” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 18:51 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Chasse with Saints and Angels

Chasse with Saints and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Plaque

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incised furniture plaque with two figures in two registers

Incised furniture plaque with two figures in two registers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet

Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Telamons (Atlantides) and Two Furniture Legs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Two Telamons (Atlantides) and Two Furniture Legs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1857–59

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Frames, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Two Frames

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Frames, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Two Frames

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Crucifixion, Study after Ludovica Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Chair, by George Jakob Hunzinger, 1835 – 1898

Chair

George Jakob Hunzinger, 1835 – 1898 · ca. 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Three Graces, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Three Graces

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Studies for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

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. 1308 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. 7464295 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-30 18:51 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.