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 “Part of a bronze handle with ram’s head finial” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:27 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 à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a bronze handle with ram’s head finial

Part of a bronze handle with ram’s head finial

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Staircase Balustrade Design, by Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776

Staircase Balustrade Design

Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
SUCRIERS DE SERVICE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SUCRIERS DE SERVICE

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant), by Jean Henri Riesener

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), by Jean Henri Riesener

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Urn

Urn

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword and Scabbard

Sword and Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartel Clock, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Cartel Clock

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1700–1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Staircase Balustrade Design, by Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776

Staircase Balustrade Design

Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staff finial with ram's head, by Lower Niger Valley caster

Staff finial with ram's head

Lower Niger Valley caster · 15th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Trianon, by François Girardon, French, 1628 – 1715

Vase de marbre blanc à Trianon

François Girardon, French, 1628 – 1715 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze diskos thrower

Bronze diskos thrower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Finial in the form of a standing ram

Finial in the form of a standing ram

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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. 2158 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. 3903698 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 16:27 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.