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 felines” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:45 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 felines

Mirror with felines

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

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

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Inscriptions from Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Inscriptions from Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 17, 1883

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

Mirror

Thomas Pelletier · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Square from hanging

Square from hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with a Mirror, by Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792

Wall Elevation with a Mirror

Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 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 · ca. 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
Wall Mirror Frame Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Wall Mirror Frame Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742

Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with Flowers and Horn of Plenty

Mirror with Flowers and Horn of Plenty

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
Hand Mirror

Hand Mirror

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–1525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with Windows and a Mirror, by Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792

Wall Elevation with Windows and a Mirror

Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a carved mirror frame

Design for a carved mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

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. 2850 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. 249426 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 13:45 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.