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 “Pierre Gouthière, French, 1740 - 1806” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 13:22 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.
Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783

Public domainThe Met
Design for an andiron, by Pierre Gouthière, French, 1740 - 1806

Design for an andiron

Pierre Gouthière, French, 1740 - 1806 · 1775-1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Flambeau, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Flambeau

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion, by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789

Une naïade échevelée recule d'efroi à la vue d'un lion

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

Clock

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque, by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789

Une fontaine avec une naïade assise sur une conque

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milk jug (pot à lait ovoïde) (part of a service), by Sèvres Manufactory

Milk jug (pot à lait ovoïde) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Soleils, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Soleils

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Chandeliers d'acolytes, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Chandeliers d'acolytes

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mustard pot, by Pierre-Nicolas Sommé

Mustard pot

Pierre-Nicolas Sommé · 1777–78

Public domainThe Met
Crosses, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Crosses

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie, by Joseph Vernet

Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1750–1800

Public domainThe Met
Cuvettes à huile, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Cuvettes à huile

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Flambeaux, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Flambeaux

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service), by Sèvres Manufactory

Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

Title Page

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service), by Sèvres Manufactory

Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

Title Page

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service), by Sèvres Manufactory

Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Plafond de la Chambre de Me.la Princesse de Rohan, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Plafond de la Chambre de Me.la Princesse de Rohan

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · after 1745

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. 29 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. 99192 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-10 13:22 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.