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, filigree flower, blue glass” — 56 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:14 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 Adam Weisweiler

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

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree flower, blue glass

Bouquet holder, filigree flower, blue glass

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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, filigree

Bouquet holder, filigree

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 1773

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia

Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia

Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder

Bouquet holder

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elephant-head vase (vase à tête d'éléphant), by Sèvres Manufactory

Elephant-head vase (vase à tête d'éléphant)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758–62

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, floral, filigree

Bouquet holder, floral, filigree

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, filigree, pin

Bouquet holder, filigree, pin

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Ornament

Turban Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia

Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower vase, by The "Greek A" Factory

Flower vase

The "Greek A" Factory · ca. 1695–1705

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, tulip shape, filigree

Bouquet holder, tulip shape, filigree

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small stemcup, by Chinese

Small stemcup

Chinese · ca. second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by French Manufacturer

Pitcher

French Manufacturer · ca. 1853–60

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree oak leaves and flowers

Bouquet holder, filigree oak leaves and flowers

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 3 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. 134674 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 11:14 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.