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 with David's Confrontation with Eliab” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 15:32 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
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

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

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

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
Towel fragment

Towel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab

Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval table, by David Roentgen

Oval table

David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair en cabriolet, by David Roentgen

Armchair en cabriolet

David Roentgen · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
3c Admirals David G. Farragut and David D. Porter plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

3c Admirals David G. Farragut and David D. Porter plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Slaying a Lion

Plate with David Slaying a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 949 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. 402208 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 15:32 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.