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 two-sided relief” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:27 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
Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Architectural Details in Classical and Pseudo-Classical Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

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
Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza, by Gaetano Frizzati, Italian

Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza

Gaetano Frizzati, Italian · 1807

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
Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud, by Unknown

Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud

Unknown · 1780–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble two-sided relief

Marble two-sided relief

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Black Basalt Bulb Pot, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Black Basalt Bulb Pot

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1780–1800

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. 1773

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici, by Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725

Wall Decoration for Cosimo III de' Medici

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (commode servante or commode desserte), by Jean Henri Riesener

Side table (commode servante or commode desserte)

Jean Henri Riesener · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Hall stand, by Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709

Hall stand

Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by John Mayhew

Commode

John Mayhew · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Charles Cressent

Commode

Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (one of a pair), by Jacques Dubois

Commode (one of a pair)

Jacques Dubois · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

Clock

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Claude-Charles Saunier

Commode

Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project), by Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)

Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing and dressing table, by Martin Carlin

Writing and dressing table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1755

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. 1256 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. 307 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-29 08:27 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.