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. 21 shown for “Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783” — 33 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:38 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.
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Title Page

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1753

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: First and Second Suite of Vases Designed by Duplessis Fils, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Album of Prints: First and Second Suite of Vases Designed by Duplessis Fils

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Title Page

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Album of Prints: Architecture and Ironwork Designed by Various Artists

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Elephant-head vase (vase à tête d'éléphant), by Sèvres Manufactory

Elephant-head vase (vase à tête d'éléphant)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758–62

Public domainThe Met
Vase with cover (vase pot-pourri triangle) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase with cover (vase pot-pourri triangle) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
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. 120 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 09:38 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.