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 “Shop bracket and sign” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Shop bracket and sign

Shop bracket and sign

Artist not stated in the record · bracket ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Bracket and Sign Design

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sign bracket

Sign bracket

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wrought Iron Staircase Balustrade and Bracket Designs, by Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70

Wrought Iron Staircase Balustrade and Bracket Designs

Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Bracket and Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bracket and Rosette Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup), by Nikosthenes

Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

Nikosthenes · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bracket and Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bracket and Rosette Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield (Dhál), by Khooshal Dhunjee & Sons

Shield (Dhál)

Khooshal Dhunjee & Sons · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Bracket and Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bracket and Rosette Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winchester Model 1894 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 311946) with Box of Sights, by Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Winchester Model 1894 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 311946) with Box of Sights

Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1906

Public domainThe Met
Bracket and Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bracket and Rosette Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Bracket and Rosette Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bracket and Rosette Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shop sign in the form of a key

Shop sign in the form of a key

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wrought Iron Staircase Balustrade and Bracket Designs, by Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70

Wrought Iron Staircase Balustrade and Bracket Designs

Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Table and Wall Bracket Designs, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Table and Wall Bracket Designs

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Six Designs for Decorative Ironwork Lanterns and Brackets, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Six Designs for Decorative Ironwork Lanterns and Brackets

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1759–68

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. 287 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1465475 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:45 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.