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 “Shell Inscribed with the Cartouche of Senwosret I” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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.

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Title Page

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page Five from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Page Five from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé Par G.M. Oppenort Architecte du Roy Et Gravé par Huquier," Serie A (Moyen Oppenord), by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé Par G.M. Oppenort Architecte du Roy Et Gravé par Huquier," Serie A (Moyen Oppenord)

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Blackpool"

"Blackpool"

Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Toucher, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Le Toucher

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche Designs, by Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782

Cartouche Designs

Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782 · 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Cartouche, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Design for a Cartouche

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

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

Title Page

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

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. 3100607 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-26 22:58 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.