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 decorated with figures in a landscape” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 15:13 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 decorated with figures in a landscape

Mirror decorated with figures in a landscape

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Chiminée decorée de glaces (Fireplace Decorated with Mirrors), in Livre de décoration de lambris (Book of Panelling Decoration), by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Chiminée decorée de glaces (Fireplace Decorated with Mirrors), in Livre de décoration de lambris (Book of Panelling Decoration)

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

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
Decoration d'une Cheminée, pour une Salle ou Cabinet d'assemblée , tendu de tapisseries, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Decoration d'une Cheminée, pour une Salle ou Cabinet d'assemblée , tendu de tapisseries

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
ÉLEVATION D’UNE CHEMINÉE, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

ÉLEVATION D’UNE CHEMINÉE

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Design for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1725–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 170? – 1762

Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 170? – 1762 · ca. 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait Miniature Mirror with Pouch

Portrait Miniature Mirror with Pouch

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Chimney Mantels for the Hôtel de Pomponne, Place des Victoires, Paris, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Chimney Mantels for the Hôtel de Pomponne, Place des Victoires, Paris

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1714

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Nouveau dessein du côte de la cheminée d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche du dessein du Sr. Blondel, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Nouveau dessein du côte de la cheminée d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche du dessein du Sr. Blondel

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1725–40

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. 7324 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7484550 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 15:13 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.