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 Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:51 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.
Sugar Bowl, from the Duc d'Orléans Service, by Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750

Sugar Bowl, from the Duc d'Orléans Service

Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750 · 1787–1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788

Title Page

Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Tailpiece Designs, by Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788

Six Tailpiece Designs

Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Tailpiece Designs, by Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788

Four Tailpiece Designs

Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Tailpiece Designs, by Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799

Album of Tailpiece Designs

Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girandole à Plateau, Table de Nuit, Pupitre à Tiroirs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Girandole à Plateau, Table de Nuit, Pupitre à Tiroirs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entrées de Serrures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Entrées de Serrures

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entrées de Serrures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Entrées de Serrures

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trophées de Musique, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophées de Musique

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sécrétaire à Archives, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Sécrétaire à Archives

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d'une Armoire, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Plan et Elévation d'une Armoire

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elévation et Coupe d'une Commode Quarrée, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elévation et Coupe d'une Commode Quarrée

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 562 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 2026-09-02 21:51 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.