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 scholar and plum branches” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:28 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.
Plate with scholar and plum branches

Plate with scholar and plum branches

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
6c Eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows vignette plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

6c Eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows vignette plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (table à écrire), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Writing table (table à écrire)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
6c Eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows frame plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

6c Eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows frame plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783

Public domainThe Met
Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars, by Mrs. Smith

Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars

Mrs. Smith · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestand, by Sèvres Manufactory

Candlestand

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée), by Paul Gudin Le Jeune

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)

Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ishizara with Warbler on a Flowering Plum Branch

Ishizara with Warbler on a Flowering Plum Branch

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Salesman's sample

Salesman's sample

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-four-light chandelier (lustre) (one of a pair)

Twenty-four-light chandelier (lustre) (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter, by Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century)

Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter

Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Egyptomania candelabrum (one of a pair), by Alexis Decaix

Egyptomania candelabrum (one of a pair)

Alexis Decaix · ca. 1802–6

Public domainThe Met
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · ca. 1757–1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of five-light candelabra, by Luigi Valadier

Pair of five-light candelabra

Luigi Valadier · 1774

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Plate

Design for a Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair), by Matthew Boulton

Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair)

Matthew Boulton · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · ca. 1757–1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair), by Matthew Boulton

Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair)

Matthew Boulton · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
1c Washington plate proof

1c Washington plate proof

Artist not stated in the record

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. 684 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. 1540795 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 2026-08-29 08:28 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.