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 “Bouquet holder, blue and orange beads with bone handle” — 63 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:02 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 Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, blue and orange beads with bone handle

Bouquet holder, blue and orange beads with bone handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor, by Joos van Cleve

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, blue beads, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, blue beads, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, beads with mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, beads with mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, crest, bone handle

Bouquet holder, crest, bone handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, pierced bone handle

Bouquet holder, pierced bone handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears, by Auguste Renoir

Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears

Auguste Renoir · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, mirrors with bone handle

Bouquet holder, mirrors with bone handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, green beads, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, green beads, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower and scrolls, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, flower and scrolls, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, beads, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, beads, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror-bearer, by Maya artist(s)

Mirror-bearer

Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, jeweled, bone handle

Bouquet holder, jeweled, bone handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scepter with profile figures, by Maya artist(s)

Scepter with profile figures

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, dangles, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, dangles, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun, by 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun

'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

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

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. 23 matched · 23 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. 1576520 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 09:02 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.