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, glass handle” — 64 records examined, 6 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.
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, glass handle

Bouquet holder, glass handle

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, turquoise glass handle

Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon holder, by Christopher Dresser

Spoon holder

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1878–81

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, palmettes, white glass handle

Bouquet holder, palmettes, white glass 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 · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, palmettes, white glass handle

Bouquet holder, palmettes, white glass handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover, by Longton Hall

Vase with cover

Longton Hall · ca. 1755–1757

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, green and gold handle

Bouquet holder, green and gold handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, beads, green handle

Bouquet holder, beads, green handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, crown vase, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, crown vase, mother of pearl handle

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, leaves, blue handle

Bouquet holder, leaves, blue handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar

Mosque Lamp of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, gothic four-sided, turquoise handle

Bouquet holder, gothic four-sided, turquoise handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of mounted vases

Pair of mounted vases

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, mirrors, blue stones, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, mirrors, blue stones, 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, 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
Bouquetier

Bouquetier

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Bouquet holder, mirrored, mother of pearl 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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 99458 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.