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. 20 shown for “Bouquet holder, leaf and berry motif” — 64 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 Martin Carlin

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

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, leaf and berry motif

Bouquet holder, leaf and berry motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold leaf

Gold leaf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–2200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

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

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

Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

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

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

Bouquet holder, leaf motif, tripod

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

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

Bouquet holder, fruit and leaf motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, scroll and leaf motif, tripod

Bouquet holder, scroll and leaf motif, tripod

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ornament

Glass ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1370–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, leaf & wheat motif

Bouquet holder, leaf & wheat motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Leaf from a Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, leaf motif

Bouquet holder, leaf motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam, by Tullio Lombardo

Adam

Tullio Lombardo · ca. 1490–95

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

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, grape and leaf motif, loop handle

Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif, loop handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ornaments

Glass ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, acorn and oak leaf motif, amethyst glass vial

Bouquet holder, acorn and oak leaf motif, amethyst glass vial

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. 44 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. 1471551 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.