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 “Two table valances with dragons” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 08:43 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.
Two table valances with dragons

Two table valances with dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 1783–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Table frontal

Table frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table valance with dragons and phoenix

Table valance with dragons and phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Valance with chef

Valance with chef

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table valance with dragon

Table valance with dragon

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valance for Table

Valance for Table

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Valances, by Wetter Freres, France, 1802

Valances

Wetter Freres, France, 1802 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table (one of a pair), by François Rournier

Console table (one of a pair)

François Rournier · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table (one of a pair), by François Rournier

Console table (one of a pair)

François Rournier · 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Le Parc du Chateau, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Le Parc du Chateau

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon

Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Public domainThe Met
Le Jouer de Cornemuse (The Bagpipe Player)

Le Jouer de Cornemuse (The Bagpipe Player)

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular cauldron (Fangding) with footed cover (Zu)

Rectangular cauldron (Fangding) with footed cover (Zu)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Silver, by Alexandre François Desportes

Still Life with Silver

Alexandre François Desportes · 1720s

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–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. 35 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. 323358 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-10 08:43 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.