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. 20 shown for “Bodkin case” — 62 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:34 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.
Bodkin case

Bodkin case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Public domainThe Met
Bodkin Case, by Unidentified

Bodkin Case

Unidentified · 1770-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodkin case

Bodkin case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Public domainThe Met
Bodkin Case, by Unidentified

Bodkin Case

Unidentified · 600-300 B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire, by Tahan

Nécessaire

Tahan · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Bodkin Case, by Unidentified

Bodkin Case

Unidentified · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Swiss Dagger with Sheath, Bodkin, and By-Knife

Swiss Dagger with Sheath, Bodkin, and By-Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Bodkin Case, by Unidentified

Bodkin Case

Unidentified · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire

Nécessaire

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Bodkin Case, by Unidentified

Bodkin Case

Unidentified · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui

Étui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Bodkin Case, by Unidentified

Bodkin Case

Unidentified · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Patent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers, by Quail, William

Patent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers

Quail, William · ca 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Robert Sayer

Étui

Robert Sayer · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Trillium pusillum var. monticulum Bodkin & Reveal

Trillium pusillum var. monticulum Bodkin & Reveal

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire

Nécessaire

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Nécessaire

Nécessaire

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Nécessaire

Nécessaire

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Étui

Étui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
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. 22 matched · 22 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. 19550 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:34 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.