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 Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:40 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 Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute

Mirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Engraved Mythical and Biblical Figures

Knife with Engraved Mythical and Biblical Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem

Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, by Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851

Teapot

Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851 · 1790–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, 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
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Angel Playing Lute; Verso Angels with Cross

Angel Playing Lute; Verso Angels with Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel Design, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Ornament Panel Design

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
The Curiosity of the Chinese

The Curiosity of the Chinese

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

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
Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rebecchino

Rebecchino

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Ornamental Frame Design

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · 1784–1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman

Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Ornamental Design with Cross at Center," Plate 2 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Ornamental Design with Cross at Center," Plate 2 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings), by Washing Painter

Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)

Washing Painter · ca. 430–420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of a Woman with a Lute, Study for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII", by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketches of a Woman with a Lute, Study for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII"

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1871–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman Holding a Papyrus Umbel

Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman Holding a Papyrus Umbel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Senses of Smell and Hearing, by Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660

Senses of Smell and Hearing

Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th 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. 151 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. 2614735 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 2026-09-03 04:40 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.