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. 21 shown for “Set of four three-light wall brackets” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 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.
Set of four three-light wall brackets

Set of four three-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Buffet, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Design for a Buffet

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light wall brackets, by Charles Cressent

Set of four three-light wall brackets

Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Design for a wall of a ballroom, by Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814

Design for a wall of a ballroom

Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-light wall brackets (set of four), by F. L. Feuchère père

Three-light wall brackets (set of four)

F. L. Feuchère père · late 18th or early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration for the Drawing Room of the Palace of Caserta, by Nicola Fiore

Wall Decoration for the Drawing Room of the Palace of Caserta

Nicola Fiore · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-light wall bracket (one of a set of six)

Three-light wall bracket (one of a set of six)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Project: A scaffolding for the exhibition of the Host (or of a relic)

Project: A scaffolding for the exhibition of the Host (or of a relic)

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling paper, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ceiling paper

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling paper, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Ceiling paper

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of three-light wall brackets

Pair of three-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Buffets, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Designs for Buffets

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Red floral dress with bishop sleeves, by Unidentified

Red floral dress with bishop sleeves

Unidentified · ca.1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of wall brackets

Pair of wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
The Interior of the Library at Cassiobury, by Augustus Charles Pugin, French, active Great Britain, ca. 1762–1832

The Interior of the Library at Cassiobury

Augustus Charles Pugin, French, active Great Britain, ca. 1762–1832 · before 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière), by Etienne-Jean Forestier

Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Etienne-Jean Forestier · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Le Soir [The Evening]

Le Soir [The Evening]

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation, Study after Innocenza da Imola, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Annunciation, Study after Innocenza da Imola

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

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. 901 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. 122 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 22:15 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.