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. 14 shown for “Bouquet holder, acorn motif” — 42 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:26 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 desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, acorn motif

Bouquet holder, acorn motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washstand (athénienne or lavabo), by Charles Percier

Washstand (athénienne or lavabo)

Charles Percier · 1800–1814

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, oak leaf & acorn motif

Bouquet holder, oak leaf & acorn motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, acorn and oak leaf motif, amethyst glass vial

Bouquet holder, acorn and oak leaf motif, amethyst glass vial

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, flower motif, cornucopia

Bouquet holder, flower motif, cornucopia

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, oak leaf motif

Bouquet holder, oak leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, Greek key motif

Bouquet holder, Greek key motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, Greek key motif

Bouquet holder, Greek key motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif, by Henry Jenkins and Sons

Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif

Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones

Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, feathery motif

Bouquet holder, feathery motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, leaf and berry motif

Bouquet holder, leaf and berry motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, fox, grapes, and basket motif, by Henry Jenkins and Sons

Bouquet holder, fox, grapes, and basket motif

Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca. 1869-1880

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16024 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 13:26 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.