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. 12 shown for “Pair of three-light wall brackets” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:31 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Designs for a Mantelpieces, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for a Mantelpieces

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Two Snuffboxes, Three Watchcase Lids, and Three Wall Brackets, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Two Snuffboxes, Three Watchcase Lids, and Three Wall Brackets

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Three Wall Brackets with Vases, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Three Wall Brackets with Vases

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projet de Porte d'Appartement fait pour M.e la Baronne de Bezenval, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet de Porte d'Appartement fait pour M.e la Baronne de Bezenval

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of Wall with Three Niches, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elevation of Wall with Three Niches

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Entrance Wall of a Courtroom, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Design for the Entrance Wall of a Courtroom

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamps w/ sconces, wall

Lamps w/ sconces, wall

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a wall of a ballroom, by Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814

Design for a wall of a ballroom

Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabesque with lions, by Arthur & Robert

Arabesque with lions

Arthur & Robert · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746

Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · early 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 337 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-29 00:31 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.