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 “Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Ecclesiatstical design for a window topped with angels, by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly

Ecclesiatstical design for a window topped with angels

Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Lange, active 1730 – 1750

Ornament Design

Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service, by Elias Adam

"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service

Elias Adam · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Ornament Design

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Ornament Designs

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Ornament Designs

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Ornament Designs

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Settee (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Ornament Designs

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature, by G. F. R. Molé

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature

G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Lange, active 1730 – 1750

Title Page

Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Cartouche Design

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Troops on the March, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Troops on the March

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Cartouche Design

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
ex "Kurtz" Violin, by Andrea Amati

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Ornament Designs

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dog Guarding Dead Game, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Dog Guarding Dead Game

Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1753

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce, by Lange, active 1730 – 1750

Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce

Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Album of Ornament Designs and Elevations, by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780

Album of Ornament Designs and Elevations

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th 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. 134 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. 627900 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.