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 “Jean-Baptiste Tilliard” — 39 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:37 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.
Sofa (ottomane veilleuse), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Sofa (ottomane veilleuse)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Letters, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for Letters

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (chaise à la Reine) (one of a set of four), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Chair (chaise à la Reine) (one of a set of four)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · ca. 1745–1750

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letter C, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letter C

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (chaise à la Reine) (one of a set of four), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Chair (chaise à la Reine) (one of a set of four)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · ca. 1745–1750

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letters J, I, K, L, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letters J, I, K, L

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pas de Deux, Tiré du Second Acte de l'Opera de Sylvie: Exécuté par Mr. Dauberval & Mlle. Allard, by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

Pas de Deux, Tiré du Second Acte de l'Opera de Sylvie: Exécuté par Mr. Dauberval & Mlle. Allard

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard · ca. 1767

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Letters, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for Letters

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (bergère à la Reine) (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Armchair (bergère à la Reine) (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letter D, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letter D

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (bergère à la Reine) (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Armchair (bergère à la Reine) (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letter B, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letter B

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la Reine) (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Armchair (fauteuil à la Reine) (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letters M, N, O, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letters M, N, O

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la Reine) (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

Armchair (fauteuil à la Reine) (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letters E and F, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letters E and F

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Magnifique, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795, by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

Le Magnifique, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letters G and H, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letters G and H

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Mari Confesseur, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795", by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

Le Mari Confesseur, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letters P, Q, R, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letters P, Q, R

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Magnifique, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795", by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

Le Magnifique, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letter A, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letter A

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Faucon, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795", by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

Le Faucon, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Letters X, Y, Z, by Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s

Designs for the Letters X, Y, Z

Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s · 1767

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. 30 matched · 24 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. 15 matched · 15 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 2026-08-26 20:37 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.