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 “Panel from a Mantle or Apron” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:49 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.
Panel from a Mantle or Apron

Panel from a Mantle or Apron

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Dessein de Cheminée pour un Cabinet dont la decoration variée du Lambris est des plus riches, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Dessein de Cheminée pour un Cabinet dont la decoration variée du Lambris est des plus riches

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1700-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheval fire screen, by Thomas Moore

Cheval fire screen

Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with Bookshelves, by Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792

Wall Elevation with Bookshelves

Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Decoration for a Large Apartment, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Decoration for a Large Apartment

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mantle Piece, from "Cheminées et Lambris"

Design for Mantle Piece, from "Cheminées et Lambris"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mantle Piece, from "Cheminées et Lambris"

Design for Mantle Piece, from "Cheminées et Lambris"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment

Tunic fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 8th - 10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Black silk velvet mantle with cording, by B. Altman and Company, 1865 - 1989

Black silk velvet mantle with cording

B. Altman and Company, 1865 - 1989 · 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feathered panel, by Wari artist(s)

Feathered panel

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Decoration d'une Cheminee sans glace, a l'usage d'une Antichambre, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Decoration d'une Cheminee sans glace, a l'usage d'une Antichambre

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Cheminée avec son Lambris, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Cheminée avec son Lambris

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

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. 2704 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. 1991946 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 13:49 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.