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 “Ornamental Frame Design” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 05:32 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.
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
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design, by Charles Hindley and Sons

Design

Charles Hindley and Sons · 1841–84

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design, by Charles Hindley and Sons

Design

Charles Hindley and Sons · 1841–84

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design, by Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760

Ornamental Frame Design

Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design, by Charles Hindley and Sons

Design

Charles Hindley and Sons · 1841–84

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design, by Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760

Ornamental Frame Design

Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame, by del Tasso

Tabernacle frame

del Tasso · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design, by Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760

Ornamental Frame Design

Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design, by Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760

Ornamental Frame Design

Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tondo mirror frame, by Benedetto da Maiano

Tondo mirror frame

Benedetto da Maiano · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Eight Ornamental Frame Designs

Eight Ornamental Frame Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Four Ornamental Frame Designs

Four Ornamental Frame Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 12099 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 131640 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 2026-09-08 05:32 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.