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 IX Hanappier” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:55 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.
Wine taster, by Pierre IX Hanappier

Wine taster

Pierre IX Hanappier · 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from "IXe Cahier de Fragment"

Title Page, from "IXe Cahier de Fragment"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication, by Denis Diderot

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication

Denis Diderot · 1762–72

Public domainThe Met
Melicope hivaoaensis J. Florence

Melicope hivaoaensis J. Florence

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Christian IX, by Rosenbaum

Christian IX

Rosenbaum · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Dalbergia bariensis Pierre

Dalbergia bariensis Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · 1865 to 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At the Curtain (Au Rideau), from "L'Estampe Originale", by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Curtain (Au Rideau), from "L'Estampe Originale"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri III (1551–1589), by Germain Pilon

Henri III (1551–1589)

Germain Pilon · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Didymocheton loureiroi (Pierre) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Jean Romilly

Watch

Jean Romilly · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Charles IX, by Nicolas de Larmessin I, 1632 - 1694

Charles IX

Nicolas de Larmessin I, 1632 - 1694 · 1679

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch and case, by John Ellicott

Watch and case

John Ellicott · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene subsp. spicata

Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene subsp. spicata

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal vessel, by Ulúa Valley artist(s)

Pedestal vessel

Ulúa Valley artist(s) · 800–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Token: Galères, 1740, by Edme Bouchardon

Design for a Token: Galères, 1740

Edme Bouchardon · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Medal: Marine 1758, by Edme Bouchardon

Design for a Medal: Marine 1758

Edme Bouchardon · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Nostolachma odorata (Pierre ex Pit.) J.-F. Leroy

Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a jeton or a token: Maison de la Reine 1740, by Edme Bouchardon

Design for a jeton or a token: Maison de la Reine 1740

Edme Bouchardon · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum squarrosum Hampe

Sphagnum squarrosum Hampe

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1945

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. 127 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 14982 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-26 19:55 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.