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, flower motif” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 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.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif

Bouquet holder, flower motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush holder with flowers and poems

Brush holder with flowers and poems

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, flower motif, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder

Bouquet holder

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Hanging Flower Holder (Hanaire) with Woman Holding a Flag

Hanging Flower Holder (Hanaire) with Woman Holding a Flag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–70s

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif

Bouquet holder, flower motif

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, flower motif, curlicue handle

Bouquet holder, flower motif, curlicue handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects, by Joris Hoefnagel

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

Joris Hoefnagel · 1589

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif

Bouquet holder, flower motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, by Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif

Bouquet holder, flower motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Verso of a Pendant with a Vase at Center, by Jan Collaert I

Design for the Verso of a Pendant with a Vase at Center

Jan Collaert I · before 1573

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif with filigree

Bouquet holder, flower motif with 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, flower motif

Bouquet holder, flower motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif

Bouquet holder, flower motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase with Flowers, by Jacob Vosmaer

A Vase with Flowers

Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif, mother of pearl

Bouquet holder, flower motif, mother of pearl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif, cornucopia

Bouquet holder, flower motif, cornucopia

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. 48 matched · 24 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. 31742 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 13:25 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.