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. 12 shown for “Wall revetment, agate pattern” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:17 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Section of wall, Escalier de la cour ovale, Palace of Fontainebleau, France, by Frederick Marschall

Section of wall, Escalier de la cour ovale, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Wall Patterns – Blois, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Sketches of Wall Patterns – Blois

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling paper, by Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, inc. 1900-1907

Ceiling paper

Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, inc. 1900-1907 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Title Page

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling paper, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York

Ceiling paper

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frieze

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall, by Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, inc. 1900-1907

Sidewall

Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, inc. 1900-1907 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall, by York Wall Paper Company, 1895

Sidewall

York Wall Paper Company, 1895 · 1895–1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling paper, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ceiling paper

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Frieze

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 42893 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-31 23:17 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.