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 “Bottle with Runners” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-11 05:20 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.
Inrō with Shells and Seaweeds amid Rocks and Waves

Inrō with Shells and Seaweeds amid Rocks and Waves

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Runner

Runner

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Runners

Bottle with Runners

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Dragon among Clouds and Waves

Inrō with Dragon among Clouds and Waves

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Dragon in Cartouche on Arabesque Foliage (Karakusa) Background

Inrō with Dragon in Cartouche on Arabesque Foliage (Karakusa) Background

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Table runner

Table runner

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
3c Runner at Starting Mark plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

3c Runner at Starting Mark plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · May 6, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Table runner

Table runner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Confederate blockade-run cover

Confederate blockade-run cover

Artist not stated in the record · January 8, 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon

Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon

Artist not stated in the record · 1912

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. 2607 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. 260202 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-11 05:20 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.