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, red ivory handle and flowers” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:02 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, red ivory handle and flowers

Bouquet holder, red ivory handle and flowers

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears, by Auguste Renoir

Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears

Auguste Renoir · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, red handle

Bouquet holder, red handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with makara spout

Ewer with makara spout

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, carved flowers, red shaft

Bouquet holder, carved flowers, red shaft

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, highlighted flower motif, ivory handle

Bouquet holder, highlighted flower motif, ivory handle

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

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, jeweled feather

Bouquet holder, jeweled feather

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
Bouquet holder, hexagonal, ivory handle

Bouquet holder, hexagonal, ivory handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui with unidentified portraits

Étui with unidentified portraits

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, petals, ivory handle

Bouquet holder, petals, ivory handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peonies, by Edouard Manet

Peonies

Edouard Manet · 1864–65

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, petals, ivory

Bouquet holder, petals, ivory

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, carnet-de-bal

Bouquet holder, carnet-de-bal

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

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

Bouquet holder, dangles, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, rhinestones, bone handle

Bouquet holder, rhinestones, bone handle

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

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

Bouquet holder, jeweled, 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. 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. 1502254 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 09:02 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.