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. 12 shown for “Bowl with Musicians” — 40 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Cellulose nitrate case for nail buffer from dresser set owned by Lena Horne

Cellulose nitrate case for nail buffer from dresser set owned by Lena Horne

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Spoon with Lizard and Moth, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Lizard and Moth

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Spoon with Toad, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Toad

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Spoon with Hornet, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Hornet

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Demitasse Spoon with Grasshopper, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Demitasse Spoon with Grasshopper

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 272016 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-26 18:15 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.