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 “Painted Dado Panels” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 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.
Painted Dado Panels

Painted Dado Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Lambris du dessein de Mr. Le Roux Architecte, by André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787

Lambris du dessein de Mr. Le Roux Architecte

André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Wall Decoration for Marie-Antoinette's Apartment at Fontainebleau Palace, by Jean-Siméon Rousseau, 1747 – 1820

Design for the Wall Decoration for Marie-Antoinette's Apartment at Fontainebleau Palace

Jean-Siméon Rousseau, 1747 – 1820 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of side chairs, by Thomas How

Pair of side chairs

Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Wall Panels Flanking a Doorway, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Wall Panels Flanking a Doorway

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Design for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1725–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Public domainThe Met
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Choir stall panels, by Johann Justus Schacht

Choir stall panels

Johann Justus Schacht · ca. 1723–26, figures 1787

Public domainThe Met
Decoration, du Côté de la Cheminée, d’une antichambre, du dessin de Mr. Le Roux Architecte, by André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787

Decoration, du Côté de la Cheminée, d’une antichambre, du dessin de Mr. Le Roux Architecte

André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of the chimney wall of a salon., by J. G. Garton, English, active in U.S.A.

Elevation of the chimney wall of a salon.

J. G. Garton, English, active in U.S.A. · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Carved and Painted Dado Panel

Fragment of a Carved and Painted Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Painted Decoration of a Wall

Painted Decoration of a Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bedroom Wall

Design for a Bedroom Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Entrance Hall, West Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Entrance Hall, West Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802 or earlier

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. 3541 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 61385 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 2026-08-28 01:01 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.