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 “Openwork furniture plaque with a male youth” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:28 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.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Plaque, by Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780

Plaque

Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780 · ca. 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with a male youth

Openwork furniture plaque with a male youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rolling Armchair, by Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867

Rolling Armchair

Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Rolling Armchair, by Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867

Rolling Armchair

Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Jean Brandely

Cabinet

Jean Brandely · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astronomical table clock, by Jeremias Metzger

Astronomical table clock

Jeremias Metzger · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze handle from a cista (toiletry box)

Bronze handle from a cista (toiletry box)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta plaque

Terracotta plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Three Graces, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Three Graces

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape

Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Plaque for an Item of Furniture, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Porcelain Plaque for an Item of Furniture

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1825–1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Secretary, by Martin Carlin

Secretary

Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Frames, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Two Frames

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

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. 208 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. 2387485 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 19:28 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.