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. 12 shown for “Bouquet holder, flowers and leaves motif, curlicue handle” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:28 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bouquet holder, flowers and leaves motif, curlicue handle

Bouquet holder, flowers and leaves motif, curlicue handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, peacock tail motif, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, peacock tail motif, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, grape & leaf motif, curlicue handle

Bouquet holder, grape & leaf motif, curlicue handle

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

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

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

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
Posy Holder, Grape Cluster & Leaf Motif

Posy Holder, Grape Cluster & Leaf Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, flowers and leaves motif

Bouquet holder, flowers and leaves motif

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, bellflower and rope motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, bellflower and rope motif, spade handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, butterfly motif, by Robert & Josiah Walsham

Bouquet holder, butterfly motif

Robert & Josiah Walsham · ca.1871

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1474888 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 13:28 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.