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 “Pair of wall brackets” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:30 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.
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of two-light wall brackets

Pair of two-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of three-light wall brackets

Pair of three-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of two-light wall brackets

Pair of two-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1720–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Bracket and Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bracket and Rosette Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Wall Bracket, by Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796

Wall Bracket

Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
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
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 3, Developement d'un Trumeau de glace fait pour le Portugal (Design for a Pier Glass with Varation for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Plate 3, Developement d'un Trumeau de glace fait pour le Portugal (Design for a Pier Glass with Varation for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

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

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. 658 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. 2871270 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 00:30 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.