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. 22 shown for “Keyhole Plate Latch” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:12 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Keyhole Plate Latch

Keyhole Plate Latch

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Keyhole escutcheon

Keyhole escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (bonheur du jour), by Martin Carlin

Desk (bonheur du jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon, by Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652

Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon

Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (bonheur du jour), by Martin Carlin

Desk (bonheur du jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon, by Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652

Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon

Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilt-top table, by David Roentgen

Tilt-top table

David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon, by Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652

Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon

Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Latch

Latch

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon, by Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652

Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon

Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Denis Genty

Commode

Denis Genty · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon, by Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652

Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon

Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Keyhole escutcheon

Keyhole escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652

Title Page

Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · 1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Keyhole escutcheon

Keyhole escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Escutcheon

Escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Keyhole escutcheon

Keyhole escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
RECUEIL DE NOUVEAUX ORNEMENTS Composés Dans le Gout le plus Moderne Destinés a être Executés en Or, Argent, Cuivre et autres Metaux DÉDIÉ A MESSIEURS Les Orfevres, Fondeurs et Ciseleurs Par leur très Humble et très Obeisant Serviteur Mondhare, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

RECUEIL DE NOUVEAUX ORNEMENTS Composés Dans le Gout le plus Moderne Destinés a être Executés en Or, Argent, Cuivre et autres Metaux DÉDIÉ A MESSIEURS Les Orfevres, Fondeurs et Ciseleurs Par leur très Humble et très Obeisant Serviteur Mondhare

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Escutcheon, by A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852

Escutcheon

A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garniture de Commode, Buffets et autre, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

Garniture de Commode, Buffets et autre

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1763

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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 98698 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-04 07:12 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.