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. 19 shown for “Mirror with birds and beasts amid grape vines” — 47 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:13 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 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
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with fantastic animals amid grape vines

Mirror with fantastic animals amid grape vines

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

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Wine Leaves and Grapes, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Wine Leaves and Grapes

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with fantastic animals amid grape vines

Mirror with fantastic animals amid grape vines

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Textile

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with Pelican in her Piety

Plate with Pelican in her Piety

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Wine cup with ring handle, birds, animals, and grape vines

Wine cup with ring handle, birds, animals, and grape vines

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of mirrors

Pair of mirrors

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines, by Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560

Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines

Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1532

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE VENDANGEUR, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LE VENDANGEUR

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2077914 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 09:13 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.