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 “Case (étui) with an amorous inscription” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:22 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.
Case (étui) with an amorous inscription

Case (étui) with an amorous inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Etui Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Etui Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Etui and cover

Etui and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock with pedestal, by André Charles Boulle

Clock with pedestal

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Etui and cover

Etui and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer

Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Etui Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Etui Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turned cup and cover with inserts and original case, by Unidentified

Turned cup and cover with inserts and original case

Unidentified · ca. 1620–50

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Cases, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Cases

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · ca. 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Qur'an Case

Qur'an Case

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Etui

Etui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt, by Georg Hoffmann

Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt

Georg Hoffmann · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Etuis Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Etuis Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case, by Smith & Wesson

Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case

Smith & Wesson · 1869

Public domainThe Met
Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories

Samuel Colt · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal

Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th– late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Molded Inscription

Ewer with Molded Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Etui a Peigne, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Etui a Peigne

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

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. 618 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 325637 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-04 22:22 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.