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 “The Flims Room” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:59 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 Flims Room

The Flims Room

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Viola sp.

Viola sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Thymus sp.

Thymus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · 1680

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana sp.

Gentiana sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, by Barthélemy Cabirol

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux

Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana sp.

Gentiana sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, by John Sanderson

Dining room from Kirtlington Park

John Sanderson · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana sp.

Gentiana sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Vaccinium dentatum Sm.

Vaccinium dentatum Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace, by Abbondio Stazio

Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace

Abbondio Stazio · ca. 1720 or later

Public domainThe Met
Primula sp.

Primula sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Soldanella sp.

Soldanella sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Primula sp.

Primula sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Androsace sp.

Androsace sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Daphne striata Tratt.

Daphne striata Tratt.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1955

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. 3616 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. 1184320 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 09:59 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.