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 de Gheyn, III” — 40 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:04 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.

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.

Album of Prints: Different Works by LaLonde, Decorator and Designer, Part III, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Different Works by LaLonde, Decorator and Designer, Part III

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Egg Cup, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Coquetier, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Egg Cup, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Coquetier, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Tasse, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Tasse, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1849–1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Minor III, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Minor III

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece, "Histoire Metalique de Guillaume III, Roy de la Grande Bretaigne"

Frontispiece, "Histoire Metalique de Guillaume III, Roy de la Grande Bretaigne"

Artist not stated in the record · 1691

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relieur Doreur, pl. III from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Relieur Doreur, pl. III from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sellier-Carossier, pl. III from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Sellier-Carossier, pl. III from "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers"

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Plates, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Assiettes, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Two Plates, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Assiettes, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and Saucer, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Tasse et soucoupe, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup and Saucer, from a Napoleon III Table Service (Tasse et soucoupe, Service à Chiffre Doré de l'Empereur Napoléon III)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1849–1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Tayloe III, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Tayloe III

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stephen Van Rensselaer, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Coles III, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Coles III

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

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. 628858 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 19:04 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.