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 “Ink Tablet with Tang Mirror Design” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 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.
Ink Tablet with Tang Mirror Design

Ink Tablet with Tang Mirror Design

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frame

Design for a Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Joseph Wilton

Chimneypiece from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Joseph Wilton · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Design for Parts of a Coach

Design for Parts of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif, by Fang Yulu

Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif

Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Lunette with Apollo, Mnemosyne and Jove, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Lunette with Apollo, Mnemosyne and Jove

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif, by Cheng Junfang

Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif

Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Memorial Tablets for Severoli Family, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Memorial Tablets for Severoli Family, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Tablet

Project for a Tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet

Ink Tablet

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Panel with Two Mirrors

Design for a Panel with Two Mirrors

Artist not stated in the record · before 1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with "Three Rarities Hall" Design

Ink Tablet with "Three Rarities Hall" Design

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Tablet and an escutcheon, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Tablet and an escutcheon

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Two Phoenixes Design, by Cheng Junfang

Ink Tablet with Two Phoenixes Design

Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for the Frame of a Tablet, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four Designs for the Frame of a Tablet

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with "The Nine Sons" Design, by Wen Ya Guo

Ink Tablet with "The Nine Sons" Design

Wen Ya Guo · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Wainscotted Wall Panel, by F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756

Design for a Wainscotted Wall Panel

F. Cornille, active 1740 - 1756 · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet Decorated with Five Pines, by Cheng Junfang

Ink Tablet Decorated with Five Pines

Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Peach Tree

Ink Tablet with Peach Tree

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a carved mirror frame

Design for a carved mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf of a Writing Tablet

Leaf of a Writing Tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · mid-17th 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. 272 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. 327236 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 08:04 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.