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 with Birds” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 13:46 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 Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with Frame of Birds, Snakes, and Foliage

Mirror with Frame of Birds, Snakes, and Foliage

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

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

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Hand Mirror

Hand Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · Second half 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with Birds

Mirror with Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–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
Mirror with birds and beasts amid grape vines

Mirror with birds and beasts amid grape vines

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chimneypiece Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Back with Birds and Animals in Repoussé

Mirror Back with Birds and Animals in Repoussé

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chimneypiece Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Thomas Pelletier

Mirror

Thomas Pelletier · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration Above a Mirror, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration Above a Mirror, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mirror with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Mirror with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of an Apartment Interior, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Elevation of an Apartment Interior

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 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
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. 9001 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. 818375 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 13:46 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.