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. 14 shown for “Rondel with the Goddess Hariti” — 42 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:35 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.
Rondel with the Goddess Hariti

Rondel with the Goddess Hariti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century

Public domainThe Met
Fountain Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Fountain Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)

The Mother Goddess Men Brajut (Hariti)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, by Briceau, French, 16..–17..

Designs for Ornament

Briceau, French, 16..–17.. · 1709

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elévations d'alcoves avec portes de degagement, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elévations d'alcoves avec portes de degagement

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Border Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Four Border Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et élévation d'une porte d'Hôtel, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plan et élévation d'une porte d'Hôtel

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d'un Salon du côté de la Cheminée, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plan et Elévation d'un Salon du côté de la Cheminée

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box or Snuffbox Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Box or Snuffbox Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1292898 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 02:35 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.