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 “Project for cast metal and colored folding doors” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:03 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
Project for cast metal and colored folding doors

Project for cast metal and colored folding doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for cast metal and colored folding doors

Design for cast metal and colored folding doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of the Entrance Wall of a Hall

Elevation of the Entrance Wall of a Hall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
The elevation of a case for a vestry

The elevation of a case for a vestry

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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
Design for a Door and Doorcase, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door and Doorcase

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a door

Design for a door

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

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
Design for a Double Door with Overdoor, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Double Door with Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The risen Christ, by Antonio Susini

The risen Christ

Antonio Susini · 1596

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Double Door and Overdoor, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Double Door and Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“An Imperial Excursion” (Miyuki), “A Boat Cast Adrift” (Ukifune), and “The Barrier Gate” (Sekiya), by Tosa Mitsuyoshi

“An Imperial Excursion” (Miyuki), “A Boat Cast Adrift” (Ukifune), and “The Barrier Gate” (Sekiya)

Tosa Mitsuyoshi · mid-16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salon Entrance

Design for a Salon Entrance

Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Matthew, by Antonio Susini

Saint Matthew

Antonio Susini · 1596

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salon Wall

Design for a Salon Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John, by Antonio Susini

Saint John

Antonio Susini · 1596

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1760–70

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. 171 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. 2047868 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-02 22:03 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.