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. 12 shown for “Jacques Caffieri” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:53 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Benjamin Franklin, by Unidentified Artist

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist · after 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Benjamin Franklin, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Bust of Benjamin Franklin

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1790–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panneaux et Frisses propre aux Sculpteurs et Peintres Inventez et dessignes par Caffiery Sculpteur, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Panneaux et Frisses propre aux Sculpteurs et Peintres Inventez et dessignes par Caffiery Sculpteur

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel and Frieze Design, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Panel and Frieze Design

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Title Page

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel and Frieze Design, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Panel and Frieze Design

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel and Frieze Design, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Panel and Frieze Design

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel and Frieze Design, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Panel and Frieze Design

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: First, Second, and Third Book of Vases by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Album of Prints: First, Second, and Third Book of Vases by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: New Vases Designed by Maurice Jacques, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Album of Prints: New Vases Designed by Maurice Jacques

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7942 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 04:53 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.