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, leaves, blue handle” — 48 records examined, 0 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 Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

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 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, blue beads, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, blue beads, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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, royal blue enamel handle

Bouquet holder, royal blue enamel handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Michael and Francis, by Juan de Flandes

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

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
The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch, by Cornelis Engebrechtsz

The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch

Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, enameled flower handle

Bouquet holder, enameled flower handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538), by North Netherlandish Painter

Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538)

North Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
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
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

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

Bouquet holder, blue stones, mother of pearl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, by Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree oak leaves and flowers

Bouquet holder, filigree oak leaves and flowers

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

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

Bouquet holder, serpent and leaves

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern

Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern

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, oak leaf motif

Bouquet holder, oak leaf motif

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 78778 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.