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 “Musical Trophies” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:05 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.
Wall Decorated with Musical and Military Trophies and Three Windows, by Anonymous, British, 18th century

Wall Decorated with Musical and Military Trophies and Three Windows

Anonymous, British, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophies

Musical Trophies

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Trophy, by Charles Monblond

Musical Trophy

Charles Monblond · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Musical Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Trophy, by Charles Monblond

Musical Trophy

Charles Monblond · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Musical Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trophy of musical instruments detail

Trophy of musical instruments detail

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Musical Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trophy of musical instruments detail

Trophy of musical instruments detail

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Musical Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Musical Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Pianoforte, by Érard

Grand Pianoforte

Érard · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Musical Trophy Design, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Musical Trophy Design

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · ca. 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harpsichord converted to a piano, by Jean Goermans

Harpsichord converted to a piano

Jean Goermans · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque Design

Grotesque Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Dufour et Leroy

Sidewall

Dufour et Leroy · 1828–38

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with Vegetal Pattern

Snuffbox with Vegetal Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Designs for Trophies, by Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Two Designs for Trophies

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century · 1700–1780

Public domainThe Met
Seat cover

Seat cover

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. 64 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. 25030 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 2026-09-04 05:05 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.