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 “Marble Decorative Panels” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 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
Tile panel

Tile panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Tile panel

Tile panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Niche with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Niche with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles

Project for a cross-altar: intended to be executed primarily with colored marbles

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of a Wall as a Picture Gallery, by Unknown, Italian

Decoration of a Wall as a Picture Gallery

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Decoration of a Panel

Project for the Decoration of a Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of a Dado

Decoration of a Dado

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble Decorative Panels

Marble Decorative Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble Decorative Panels

Marble Decorative Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

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

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
RECEUIL DES Plans Profils et Elevations Des plusieurs Palais Chasteaux Eglises Sepultures Grotes et Hostels, Bâtis dans Paris, et aux environs, avec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu Architects du Royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et gravez par Jean Marot Architecte Parisien, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

RECEUIL DES Plans Profils et Elevations Des plusieurs Palais Chasteaux Eglises Sepultures Grotes et Hostels, Bâtis dans Paris, et aux environs, avec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu Architects du Royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et gravez par Jean Marot Architecte Parisien

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

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. 3118 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. 56567 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 06:56 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.