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 “Sébastien Igonet” — 42 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 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.
Coffeepot, by Sébastien Igonet

Coffeepot

Sébastien Igonet · 1738–39

Public domainThe Met
Sphaeranthus africanus L.

Sphaeranthus africanus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1847 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl, by Sébastien Igonet

Sugar bowl

Sébastien Igonet · 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Apollo and Marsias, by John Sebastien Miller, German, born Nuremberg, Germany 1715-died London, England after 1785

Apollo and Marsias

John Sebastien Miller, German, born Nuremberg, Germany 1715-died London, England after 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter H, from Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne", by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

Letter H, from Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France), by Louis Michel Petit, French, 1790 - 1844

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)

Louis Michel Petit, French, 1790 - 1844 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pandanus utilis Bory

Pandanus utilis Bory

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter F, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne", by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

Letter F, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter D, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne", by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

Letter D, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lindsaea stricta f. moritziana K.U. Kramer

Lindsaea stricta f. moritziana K.U. Kramer

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter E, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne", by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

Letter E, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter C, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne", by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

Letter C, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Tomb Monument of Charles IV of Lorraine, by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

A Tomb Monument of Charles IV of Lorraine

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1664

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. 56 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 16:36 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.