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 “Mirror Case with amorous scenes” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:13 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, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with amorous scenes

Mirror Case with amorous scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Mirror from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Mirror from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
La Demande en Marriage

La Demande en Marriage

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Maidens and a Victory

Maidens and a Victory

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer

Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party

Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–60

Public domainThe Met
Mirror and case

Mirror and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

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

Wall with Central Mirror

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch, by Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani

Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch

Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani · dated 1271 AH/1854 CE

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea

Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea

Artist not stated in the record · 1561

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (Secretary)

Desk (Secretary)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–35

Public domainThe Met
Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins

Artist not stated in the record · July 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Mirror, Life Jacket, Glenn, Friendship 7, by Unknown

Mirror, Life Jacket, Glenn, Friendship 7

Unknown

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. 98 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. 263708 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-05 06:13 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.