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, medallions” — 64 records examined, 10 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 Adam Weisweiler

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

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, medallions

Bouquet holder, medallions

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder

Bouquet holder

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, engraved medallions

Bouquet holder, engraved medallions

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder

Bouquet holder

Artist not stated in the record · 1854

Public domainThe Met
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

Bouquet holder

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, blue and orange beads with bone handle

Bouquet holder, blue and orange beads with bone handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Piano, by Robert Nunns

Square Piano

Robert Nunns · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, incised arches

Bouquet holder, incised arches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlesticks

Pair of candlesticks

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–96

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, crown top

Bouquet holder, crown top

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquetier

Bouquetier

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, Gothic arches

Bouquet holder, Gothic arches

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

Bouquet holder, filigree, tripod

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1648

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
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century, after 17th century original

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, etched flowers

Bouquet holder, etched flowers

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linstock

Linstock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 5, by Anonymous, French

Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 5

Anonymous, French · 1770 or after

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Liberty Wall Paper Company, Schuylerville, New York

Ceiling paper

Liberty Wall Paper Company, Schuylerville, New York · 1905–1915

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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 10314 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.