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 and lions amid flowers” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 13:40 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 with birds and lions amid flowers

Mirror with birds and lions amid flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Looking Glass

Designs for a Console Looking Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

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

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Display Stand, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German, 1781–1841

Design for a Display Stand

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German, 1781–1841 · 1812

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

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

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 with lions and flowers

Mirror with lions and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design, by N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century

Chimneypiece Design

N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century · 1775–87

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 with handle and decorated with peacock, flowers, and birds

Mirror with handle and decorated with peacock, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record

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 Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

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 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
Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with parrots and flowers

Mirror with parrots and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table

Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror decorated with figures in a landscape

Mirror decorated with figures in a landscape

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation, by L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century

Interior Wall Elevation

L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Towel

Towel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

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. 193 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. 2080334 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 13:40 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.