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 “Plate 10, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:57 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
Plate 10, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"

Plate 10, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"

Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

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

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 10, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs", by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Plate 10, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

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
Le courage à l'Epreuve, Plate 10 from "Inconvénient", by Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826

Le courage à l'Epreuve, Plate 10 from "Inconvénient"

Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

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

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Fork-Tailed Blue-Vented Bee-Eater, Plate 10 from Birds of Western Africa

Fork-Tailed Blue-Vented Bee-Eater, Plate 10 from Birds of Western Africa

Artist not stated in the record · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from set of Flowers in a Basket, by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699

Plate 10, from set of Flowers in a Basket

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
The Happy Satyr with His Family, plate 10 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

The Happy Satyr with His Family, plate 10 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant

Microscope

Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 10, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Panel Surmounted by a Basket of Flowers and a Garland, plate 10 from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale, by Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665

Ornamental Panel Surmounted by a Basket of Flowers and a Garland, plate 10 from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale

Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths), by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Plate 10, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

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

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Plate 5, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"

Plate 5, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"

Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock with pedestal, by André Charles Boulle

Clock with pedestal

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Plate 8, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"

Plate 8, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"

Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

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. 5874 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. 932517 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 17:57 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.