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 game board design and animals of the four directions” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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 game board design and animals of the four directions

Mirror with game board design and animals of the four directions

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Nouveau Jeu des Fables d'Esope (New game of Aesop's Fables), by Jean, active 19th c.

Nouveau Jeu des Fables d'Esope (New game of Aesop's Fables)

Jean, active 19th c. · ca. 1812

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

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Board game

Board game

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game of Hounds and Jackals

Game of Hounds and Jackals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Die Thierwelt (The Animal Kingdom), by Henri Frederich Müller, German, active 19th c.

Die Thierwelt (The Animal Kingdom)

Henri Frederich Müller, German, active 19th c. · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with animals of the four directions and other mythical creatures

Mirror with animals of the four directions and other mythical creatures

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd 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
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Cavagnole

Cavagnole

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Die Thierwelt (The Animal Kinggom), by Henri Frederich Müller, German, active 19th c.

Die Thierwelt (The Animal Kinggom)

Henri Frederich Müller, German, active 19th c. · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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 decorated with lunisolar cosmology

Mirror decorated with lunisolar cosmology

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for a wall of a ballroom, by Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814

Design for a wall of a ballroom

Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Mirror and Console Table, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Mirror and Console Table

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Playing Cards

The Cloisters Playing Cards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Cheminée au milieu de Lambris de desseins differens, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Cheminée au milieu de Lambris de desseins differens

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

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. 367 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. 4249897 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 12:30 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.