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 floral roundels” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:47 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 floral roundels

Mirror with floral roundels

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Panel with a Central Roundel, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Ornamental Panel with a Central Roundel

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Roundel with Playing at Quintain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elder of the Apocalypse

Elder of the Apocalypse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

Artist not stated in the record · 1532

Public domainThe Met
ÉLEVATION D’UNE CHEMINÉE, by A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768

ÉLEVATION D’UNE CHEMINÉE

A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sorgheloos ("Carefree") in Poverty

Sorgheloos ("Carefree") in Poverty

Artist not stated in the record · 1510–20

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
Bronze box mirror

Bronze box mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 4th century BCE

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
Calligraphic Roundel, inscribed "Ya 'Aziz" (Oh Mighty)

Calligraphic Roundel, inscribed "Ya 'Aziz" (Oh Mighty)

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

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Roundel with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mirror Frame with Monogram of Marie-Antoinette, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Mirror Frame with Monogram of Marie-Antoinette

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1787–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Susanna In Judgement, by After Master of the Jospeh Panels, Jacob Van Lathem?

Roundel with Susanna In Judgement

After Master of the Jospeh Panels, Jacob Van Lathem? · ca. 1510–20

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
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. 252 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. 251606 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 2026-09-06 13:47 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.