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 Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 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 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
The Worship of Amor Vincitor, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Worship of Amor Vincitor

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Capricorne (Capricorn) from le Zodiac Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Capricorne (Capricorn) from le Zodiac Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Case with three small bottles

Case with three small bottles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Love and friendship

Love and friendship

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan and case

Brisé fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

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

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
La Demande en Marriage

La Demande en Marriage

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Toothbrush Case from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Toothbrush Case from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

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. 71 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. 2839538 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 09:44 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.