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 “Waistcoat front panels” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:10 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.
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat panel

Waistcoat panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat front

Waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of side chairs, by Thomas How

Pair of side chairs

Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat front

Waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waistcoat front panels

Waistcoat front panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat panel

Waistcoat panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Claude-Charles Saunier

Commode

Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat panels

Waistcoat panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50), by Hans Wagner the Elder

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)

Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Public domainThe Met
Printed paisley velveteen waistcoat, by Unidentified

Printed paisley velveteen waistcoat

Unidentified · 1840-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Commode

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat panels

Waistcoat panels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Uncut waistcoat front

Uncut waistcoat front

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretaire (secrétaire à abattant), by Jean-François Dubut

Drop-front secretaire (secrétaire à abattant)

Jean-François Dubut · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat panel

Waistcoat panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads · probably early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat, uncut

Waistcoat, uncut

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

The Last Supper

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · 1548

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat, uncut

Waistcoat, uncut

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–95

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. 937 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 28437 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 2026-08-28 09:10 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.