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 “Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:32 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.
Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville

Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville

Artist not stated in the record · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, by Pietro Camporese the Younger, Italian, Roman, 1792–1873

Design for a Chimneypiece

Pietro Camporese the Younger, Italian, Roman, 1792–1873 · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Public domainThe Met
Bed alcove and chimney mantel, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Bed alcove and chimney mantel

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune, by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mantelpiece

Design for a Mantelpiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation, probably for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Elevation, probably for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Château at Villeneuve, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Château at Villeneuve

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Mantelpieces, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for a Mantelpieces

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
The Watzmann from the Grounds of the Château in Aigen, near Salzburg, Austria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Watzmann from the Grounds of the Château in Aigen, near Salzburg, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June - August 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Refugees from Chateau Thierry Section, by Townsend, Harry

Refugees from Chateau Thierry Section

Townsend, Harry · 1918

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. 551 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1468521 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 02:32 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.