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 a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:30 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 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
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 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
Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Decoration for a Large Apartment, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Decoration for a Large Apartment

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
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Chimneypiece Designs, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Two Chimneypiece Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dessein de Cheminée pour un Cabinet dont la decoration variée du Lambris est des plus riches, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Dessein de Cheminée pour un Cabinet dont la decoration variée du Lambris est des plus riches

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1700-1742

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
Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

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 · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Candlesticks, by Unknown

Design for Two Candlesticks

Unknown · early 19th century

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
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
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Multi-Colored Enamel Handle

Knife with Multi-Colored Enamel Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1700

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. 4186 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7484514 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 06:30 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.