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 “James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model” — 56 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:34 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.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
James Smith's 1869 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

James Smith's 1869 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
James Smith's 1871 School Desks and Seats Patent Model

James Smith's 1871 School Desks and Seats Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
James Blair's 1867 School Desk Patent Model

James Blair's 1867 School Desk Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
James S. Rankin's 1879 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

James S. Rankin's 1879 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Fernando Dibble's 1867 School Seat Patent Model

Fernando Dibble's 1867 School Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model

Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
George Sherwood's 1867 Folding Seat Patent Model

George Sherwood's 1867 Folding Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Hamilton S. McRae's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Hamilton S. McRae's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
John Peard's 1867 School Desk Patent Model fragment

John Peard's 1867 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
James Russell's 1871 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

James Russell's 1871 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

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. 16 matched · 16 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. 1662903 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 17:34 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.