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. 20 shown for “Triple-back settee (part of a set)” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:08 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.
Settee, by Benjamin Goodison

Settee

Benjamin Goodison · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six, by Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888

Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six

Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triple-back settee (part of a set)

Triple-back settee (part of a set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Settee, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Settee

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Settee (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Settee (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Settee, by George Jakob Hunzinger

Settee

George Jakob Hunzinger · ca. 1876–85

Public domainThe Met
Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · frame early 20th century, style of 18th century; upholstery fabric ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Case for Knife and Fork (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Case for Knife and Fork (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair), by John Mayhew

Settee (one of a pair)

John Mayhew · 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six, by Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888

Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six

Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Fork with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dessert Fork with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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. 4175 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. 3856388 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 06:08 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.