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. 22 shown for “Tabouret with Winged Griffins and Benedictions” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 23:03 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.
Tabouret with Winged Griffins and Benedictions

Tabouret with Winged Griffins and Benedictions

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Clock, by Antoine-Andre Ravrio, French, 1759–1814

Clock

Antoine-Andre Ravrio, French, 1759–1814 · 1807–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Tabouret à la Dauphine [et] Flamande [et] Tabouret, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Tabouret à la Dauphine [et] Flamande [et] Tabouret

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Dossier du Sopha A, Tabouret Octogone, Moulure du Tabouret, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Dossier du Sopha A, Tabouret Octogone, Moulure du Tabouret

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with a Griffin

Panel with a Griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 1250–1300

Public domainThe Met
Dossier du Sopha A, Tabouret Octogone, Moulure du Tabouret, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Dossier du Sopha A, Tabouret Octogone, Moulure du Tabouret

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winged griffin plaque inscribed with the name Nebpehtyre (Ahmose I)

Winged griffin plaque inscribed with the name Nebpehtyre (Ahmose I)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Pendant Design

Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier table, by Joseph B. Barry and Son

Pier table

Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs, by Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802

Design for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta revetment with a griffin

Terracotta revetment with a griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tabourets, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Tabourets

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earrings with lion-griffin terminal

Earrings with lion-griffin terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Wall Decoration

Project for a Wall Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring with lion-griffin terminal

Earring with lion-griffin terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Panel, Fire Screen, and Andirons, by Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802

Designs for a Panel, Fire Screen, and Andirons

Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802 · ca. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earring with head of lion-griffin

Earring with head of lion-griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Ornament Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Ornament Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque Design

Grotesque Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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. 111 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1544595 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 2026-09-06 23:03 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.