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. 23 shown for “Trophy detail” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:07 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.
Trophy detail

Trophy detail

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

Public domainThe Met
Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trophy detail

Trophy detail

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament, by Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776

Designs for Firearms Ornament

Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Pianoforte, by Érard

Grand Pianoforte

Érard · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Firearms Ornament, by Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776

Designs for Firearms Ornament

Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trophy of musical instruments detail

Trophy of musical instruments detail

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheets of Studies after Bolognese Monuments

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trophy of musical instruments detail

Trophy of musical instruments detail

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornice (Ceiling) Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Cornice (Ceiling) Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breastplate

Breastplate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Design for Living Room with Alternate Suggestions, by Gaspare Salvi, Italian, 1786 - 1849

Design for Living Room with Alternate Suggestions

Gaspare Salvi, Italian, 1786 - 1849 · 1810–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627), by Pompeo della Cesa

Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627)

Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1595

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design, by N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century

Chimneypiece Design

N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century · 1775–87

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia (1779–1831), by Tula Arms Factory

Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia (1779–1831)

Tula Arms Factory · ca. 1801

Public domainThe Met
Détails de la Sculpture du Confident, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Détails de la Sculpture du Confident

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Détails de la Sculpture du Confident, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Détails de la Sculpture du Confident

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheellock Pistol, by Pierre Cisteron

Wheellock Pistol

Pierre Cisteron · ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Trophies, by Roubiliac, French, active 18th century

Two Designs for Trophies

Roubiliac, French, active 18th century · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parti in grande restaurati de' Trofei de Ottaviano Augusto (Restored detail of the Trophy of Octavian Augusto), by Francesco Piranesi

Parti in grande restaurati de' Trofei de Ottaviano Augusto (Restored detail of the Trophy of Octavian Augusto)

Francesco Piranesi · ca. 1753

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Trophies, by Roubiliac, French, active 18th century

Two Designs for Trophies

Roubiliac, French, active 18th century · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shirt of Mail and Plate of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Qaitbay (ca. 1416/18–1496), 18th Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt

Shirt of Mail and Plate of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Qaitbay (ca. 1416/18–1496), 18th Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1468–96

Public domainThe Met
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. 74 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. 7626 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 03:07 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.