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 “Bottle with Three Lugs” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:27 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.
Bottle with Three Lugs

Bottle with Three Lugs

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Case with three small bottles

Case with three small bottles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690, decorated ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Scent Bottle

Scent Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature bottle with cover, by David Clayton

Miniature bottle with cover

David Clayton · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cruet Stand

Cruet Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature bottle with cover, by David Clayton

Miniature bottle with cover

David Clayton · 1720–23

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with three feet

Glass bottle with three feet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature caster with cover, by David Clayton

Miniature caster with cover

David Clayton · 1720–23

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, by Central Highlands artist(s)

Bottle

Central Highlands artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature caster with cover, by David Clayton

Miniature caster with cover

David Clayton · 1720–23

Public domainThe Met
Miniature caster with cover, by David Clayton

Miniature caster with cover

David Clayton · 1720–23

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with feline, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with feline

Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 25–50 CE

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. 307 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 269587 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 2026-08-28 02:27 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.