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 “Panels” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:24 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.
Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Beige A-line dress with jacket, by Jean Louis, French, 1907 - 1997

Beige A-line dress with jacket

Jean Louis, French, 1907 - 1997 · 1960s

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
Alternative Designs for a Metal Gate

Alternative Designs for a Metal Gate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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
Women Riding Sea Centaurs, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Women Riding Sea Centaurs, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion, by Thomas Tompion

Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion

Thomas Tompion · ca. 1677–80

Public domainThe Met
Gray dress with draped shawl collar, by Unidentified

Gray dress with draped shawl collar

Unidentified · 1940s

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

Pair of side chairs

Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Public domainThe Met
Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type E: 85% opacity), by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008

Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type E: 85% opacity)

Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008 · ca. 2013

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
Boxing gloves worn by Melvin Van Peebles, by Champion, American, founded 1919

Boxing gloves worn by Melvin Van Peebles

Champion, American, founded 1919 · Mid to late 20th century

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
Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type F: 90% opacity), by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008

Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type F: 90% opacity)

Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008 · ca. 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Claude-Charles Saunier

Commode

Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type C: 75% opacity), by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008

Corona panel designed for NMAAHC (Type C: 75% opacity)

Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, American, founded 2008 · ca. 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50), by Hans Wagner the Elder

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)

Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Public domainThe Met
Scenic

Scenic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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

Cheval fire screen

Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Cream silk dress with metallic embroidery and front overskirt

Cream silk dress with metallic embroidery and front overskirt

Artist not stated in the record · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

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

Wall Elevation with a Mirror

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons, by Kano Mitsunobu

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons

Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Salesman's sample book

Salesman's sample book

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 8123 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. 7900 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 02:24 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.