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. 20 shown for “Mirror (Shinjūkyō) Based on Han Dynasty Prototype with Cosmological Design” — 53 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:59 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.
Mirror (Shinjūkyō) Based on Han Dynasty Prototype with Cosmological Design

Mirror (Shinjūkyō) Based on Han Dynasty Prototype with Cosmological Design

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Salon Chimney Wall, by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French, 1727 – 1793

Elevation of Salon Chimney Wall

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French, 1727 – 1793 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with game board design and animals of the four directions

Mirror with game board design and animals of the four directions

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wainscoting with a Mirror, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Wainscoting with a Mirror

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rothschild lamp, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Rothschild lamp

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Tomb jar

Tomb jar

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with game board design

Mirror with game board design

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Mirror and Console Table, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Mirror and Console Table

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with board game design and mythical creatures

Mirror with board game design and mythical creatures

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Canapé and Mirror, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Canapé and Mirror

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Emperor Antoninus Pius, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Emperor Antoninus Pius

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · 1519–24

Public domainThe Met
Inkwell with Zodiac Signs

Inkwell with Zodiac Signs

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 1125045 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:59 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.