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. 12 shown for “Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:54 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a Sofa, by Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy

Design for a Sofa

Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Molding and Ornamentation

Molding and Ornamentation

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheminée au milieu de Lambris de desseins differens, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Cheminée au milieu de Lambris de desseins differens

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1700-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado

Dado

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plans et Elevations de deux Retables d'autel Ornés de Pilastres differens. Pilastre Ionique. Pilastre Toscan., by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plans et Elevations de deux Retables d'autel Ornés de Pilastres differens. Pilastre Ionique. Pilastre Toscan.

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table

Console table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior Wall Elevations, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Interior Wall Elevations

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 253962 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 2026-08-28 14:54 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.