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. 23 shown for “Bouquet holder, royal blue enamel handle” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:26 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.
Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well, by Johannes van Ceulen

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well

Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

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
Vase with handles, by Crown Derby

Vase with handles

Crown Derby · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, enamel handle

Bouquet holder, enamel handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, enamel vase and handle

Bouquet holder, enamel vase and handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer (Brocca), by Medici Porcelain Manufactory

Ewer (Brocca)

Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–87

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, feather vase, enamel handle

Bouquet holder, feather vase, enamel 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 Adam Weisweiler

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

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, light blue enamel handle

Bouquet holder, light blue enamel handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), by Vincennes Manufactory

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

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
Vase (one of a pair), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Vase (one of a pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1762

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, ornate with enamel handle

Bouquet holder, ornate with enamel 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, woman and bird motif with enamel handle

Bouquet holder, woman and bird motif with enamel handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair), by Alexandre Evariste Fragonard

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)

Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

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
Beaker, by Meissen Manufactory

Beaker

Meissen Manufactory · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
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, enamel on vase and handle

Bouquet holder, enamel on vase and handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl from the Rambouillet service (Jatte écuelle), by Sèvres Manufactory

Bowl from the Rambouillet service (Jatte écuelle)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, enamel decoration, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, enamel decoration, 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. 35 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 85218 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 13:26 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.