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, gothic four-sided, turquoise handle” — 38 records examined, 1 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.
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
Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

Bouquet holder, turquoise glass handle

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

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

Bouquet holder, bird motif, spade handle

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, 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, 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
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
Bouquet holder, rose motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, rose motif, spade handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, mesh with mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, mesh with mother of pearl 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
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
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 38 matched · 38 examined · 1 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.