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 “Lorgnette Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:18 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.
Lorgnette Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden

Lorgnette Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Veüe generale de Fontaine-bleau, by Pierre, I Patel, French, ca. 1605 – 1676

Veüe generale de Fontaine-bleau

Pierre, I Patel, French, ca. 1605 – 1676 · 1660–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Veuë de la Cour du cheval blanc à Fontaine-Bleau, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Veuë de la Cour du cheval blanc à Fontaine-Bleau

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1661–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden

The Agony in the Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Diligence à Panneaux, by Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century

Diligence à Panneaux

Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan and case

Brisé fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reciting Poetry in a Garden

Reciting Poetry in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun

Charles K. Wilkinson · 1928; original ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: A Courtyard, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: A Courtyard

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1742–46

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. 471 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7484508 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 02:18 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.