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. 12 shown for “Project for an Engraved Ornament” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Project for an Engraved Ornament

Project for an Engraved Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Elements, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Architectural Elements

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of Twelve Designs for Engraved Vessels)

Plate from 12 Stick Zum Verzaighnen Stechen Ver Fertigt (Set of Twelve Designs for Engraved Vessels)

Artist not stated in the record · 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 5, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths), by Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663

Plate 5, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buttons

Buttons

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 8 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes), by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Plate 8 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 14 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes), by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Plate 14 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design), by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design)

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 9 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes), by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Plate 9 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1149739 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 2026-09-07 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.