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. 20 shown for “Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738” — 30 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 09:58 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.
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory · 1738–49

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Dish

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin family, by Villeroy

Harlequin family

Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689–1755), baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, by Sèvres Manufactory

Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689–1755), baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Jug

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les travaux de la manufacture, by Jean-Baptiste Huet I

Les travaux de la manufacture

Jean-Baptiste Huet I · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by René Cresson

Armchair

René Cresson · 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play, by Pierre François Drais

Snuffbox with scenes of putti at play

Pierre François Drais · 1770–71

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1760–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Les monuments d'Égypte, by Oberkampf Manufactory

Les monuments d'Égypte

Oberkampf Manufactory · ca. 1808

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1760s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulb pot, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Bulb pot

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feeding bowl, by Villeroy

Feeding bowl

Villeroy · 1745

Public domainThe Met
Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palm Trees), by Oberkampf Manufactory

Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palm Trees)

Oberkampf Manufactory · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Jardinière, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Jardinière

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Charger

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Charger

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1760s–80s

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20 matched · 20 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 2026-08-30 09:58 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.