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 “Trophy of musical instruments detail” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:08 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.
Trophy of musical instruments detail

Trophy of musical instruments detail

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Trophy composed of musical instruments, by Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964

Trophy composed of musical instruments

Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964 · ca. 1907–09

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
Musical Trophies

Musical Trophies

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Trophy, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Design for a Trophy

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Trophy of Musical Instruments, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Fountain with Trophy of Musical Instruments

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sō Sām Sāi

Sō Sām Sāi

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Musical Motifs, Plate 1 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Musical Motifs, Plate 1 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

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

Grand Pianoforte

Érard · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
INSTRUMENTS DE SYMPHONIE, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

INSTRUMENTS DE SYMPHONIE

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in B-flat, by Charles Joseph Sax

Clarinet in B-flat

Charles Joseph Sax · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sgra-Snyan

Sgra-Snyan

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Trophy Designs, by Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century

Ornamental Trophy Designs

Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
O-daiko, by Kodenji Hayashi

O-daiko

Kodenji Hayashi · ca. 1873

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Ornamental Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Walking-Stick Flute/Oboe, by Georg Henrich Scherer

Walking-Stick Flute/Oboe

Georg Henrich Scherer · ca. 1750–57

Public domainThe Met
Two Trophy Designs, by Jacques Ignace de Latouche, French, 1694 – 1781

Two Trophy Designs

Jacques Ignace de Latouche, French, 1694 – 1781 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double animal-head bell, by Chiriquí artist(s)

Double animal-head bell

Chiriquí artist(s) · 1000 - 1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
LIVRE NOUVEAU de Differents Trophées Inventez par A. Watteau et Gravé par Huquier, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LIVRE NOUVEAU de Differents Trophées Inventez par A. Watteau et Gravé par Huquier

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Qin (Seven-stringed zither), by Unidentified artist

Qin (Seven-stringed zither)

Unidentified artist · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page

Title Page

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 647 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2861302 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-04 03:08 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.