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 “Portable Cabinet with Drawers” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:46 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.
Apothecary Cabinet, by Nicolaus I Kolb

Apothecary Cabinet

Nicolaus I Kolb · 1617–18

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet

Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet on stand

Cabinet on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet on Stand

Cabinet on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Jean Brandely

Cabinet

Jean Brandely · 1867

Public domainThe Met
cabinet

cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Melchior Baumgartner

Cabinet

Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for Large Two-Part Cabinet Built into Niche, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Large Two-Part Cabinet Built into Niche

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Herman Doomer

Cabinet

Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Tall China Cabinet with Broken Pediment, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Tall China Cabinet with Broken Pediment

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portable Cabinet with Drawers

Portable Cabinet with Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Cabinet

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Raised Side Cabinets and Upper Shelf, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Raised Side Cabinets and Upper Shelf

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table with Top Cabinet and Ionic Capitals Atop Legs, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table with Top Cabinet and Ionic Capitals Atop Legs

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Tall China Cabinet with Eagle Motif, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Tall China Cabinet with Eagle Motif

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal cabinet, by William Vile

Medal cabinet

William Vile · 1760–61

Public domainThe Met
Design for Corner China Cabinet with Chinese Fretwork, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Corner China Cabinet with Chinese Fretwork

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Nine Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Nine Drawers

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin cabinet, by Charles Percier

Coin cabinet

Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Public domainThe Met
Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Six-Drawer Upper Cabinet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Six-Drawer Upper Cabinet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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. 101 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 251179 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-28 10:46 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.