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 “Vignette” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:28 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.
Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid

Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel, by Norman de Garis Davies

East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel

Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Public domainThe Met
La course au Sanglier (The Boar Hunt), by Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816

La course au Sanglier (The Boar Hunt)

Claude-Louis Desrais, French, 1746–1816 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Landscape Vignette

Vase with Landscape Vignette

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Vignette with Singe, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Chinoiserie Vignette with Singe

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Vignette, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Rocaille Vignette

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trade card of John Brown, Chairs and Cabinet-work, at the Three Cover'd Chairs & Walnut Tree, St. Paul's Church Yard, London, by Joseph Champion

Trade card of John Brown, Chairs and Cabinet-work, at the Three Cover'd Chairs & Walnut Tree, St. Paul's Church Yard, London

Joseph Champion · 1742–61

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Vignette with Singe, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Chinoiserie Vignette with Singe

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vignette from the Book of the Dead, Tomb of Nefertari, by Nina de Garis Davies

Vignette from the Book of the Dead, Tomb of Nefertari

Nina de Garis Davies · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Vignette, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Chinoiserie Vignette

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles XII at Bender (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 30), by William Hogarth

Charles XII at Bender (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 30)

William Hogarth · 1723–24

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Vignette, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Chinoiserie Vignette

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy bandage of Hepmeneh, born of Tasheritentaqeri, inscribed with text and vignette from the Book of the Dead

Mummy bandage of Hepmeneh, born of Tasheritentaqeri, inscribed with text and vignette from the Book of the Dead

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Vignette, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Chinoiserie Vignette

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Universal Architecture: Book I, Six Original Designs of Arbours; Book II, Six Original Designs for Grottoes, by Thomas Wright

Universal Architecture: Book I, Six Original Designs of Arbours; Book II, Six Original Designs for Grottoes

Thomas Wright · 1755 and 1758

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Rocaille Vignette, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Chinoiserie Rocaille Vignette

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert), by Stefano della Bella

Frontispiece, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)

Stefano della Bella · 1640

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jean Gualbert trampling a monster with two human heads and a serpentine body, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert), by Stefano della Bella

Saint Jean Gualbert trampling a monster with two human heads and a serpentine body, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)

Stefano della Bella · 1640

Public domainThe Met
Slop Bowl with Chinoiserie Vignettes, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Slop Bowl with Chinoiserie Vignettes

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The test of fire, the monk Peter, the disciple Saint John Gualbert, passing through the flames from two pyres unharmed, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert), by Stefano della Bella

The test of fire, the monk Peter, the disciple Saint John Gualbert, passing through the flames from two pyres unharmed, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)

Stefano della Bella · 1640

Public domainThe Met
Vignette with a Blank Oval shield, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Vignette with a Blank Oval shield

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

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. 1599 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 18:28 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.