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. 15 shown for “Paul Decker, 1677–1713” — 34 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:05 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.
Étui, by Vienna

Étui

Vienna · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein", by Paul Decker, 1677–1713

Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein"

Paul Decker, 1677–1713 · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The First Wall of the Porcelain Room, from: 'Fürstlicher Baumeister Oder: Architectura civilis', by Paul Decker the Elder

The First Wall of the Porcelain Room, from: 'Fürstlicher Baumeister Oder: Architectura civilis'

Paul Decker the Elder · 1711

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein", by Paul Decker, 1677–1713

Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein"

Paul Decker, 1677–1713 · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Scenes from the Old Testament, by Paul Decker the Younger

Four Scenes from the Old Testament

Paul Decker the Younger · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein", by Paul Decker, 1677–1713

Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein"

Paul Decker, 1677–1713 · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Nailed on the Cross, by Paul Decker the Younger

Christ Nailed on the Cross

Paul Decker the Younger · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
OFFICINA PHARMACEUTICA DIETERICIANA

OFFICINA PHARMACEUTICA DIETERICIANA

Artist not stated in the record · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jungfrauen Arbeit, Kunst, und Fleiss, by Paul Decker the Younger

Jungfrauen Arbeit, Kunst, und Fleiss

Paul Decker the Younger · ca. 1735/40

Public domainThe Met
Cross-section and Floorplan of an Indoor Grotto, by Gabriel Bodenehr

Cross-section and Floorplan of an Indoor Grotto

Gabriel Bodenehr · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Arm Reliquary

Arm Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Shelf System to Display Porcelain, by Anonymous, 18th century

Design for a Shelf System to Display Porcelain

Anonymous, 18th century · ca. 1700–30

Public domainThe Met
Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector, by Johann G. Racine

Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector

Johann G. Racine · case ca. 1688, movement ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], by Alphonse Bertillon

[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files]

Alphonse Bertillon · 1891–95

Public domainThe Met
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 18 matched · 18 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:05 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.