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 “Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish” — 54 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:20 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.
Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Spoon in the Form of a Swimming Girl

Cosmetic Spoon in the Form of a Swimming Girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic dish in the shape of a dog

Cosmetic dish in the shape of a dog

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Spoon in the form of a Swimming Girl

Head from a Spoon in the form of a Swimming Girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a woman

Head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (with Knife and Spoon)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (with Knife and Spoon)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Spoon

Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweret Bead

Sweret Bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Family Scene: Feeding a Baby, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Family Scene: Feeding a Baby

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

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

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ornamental Border Used for the Surround to the General Chart in John Pine's "Tapestry Hangings in the House of Lords", by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Design for an Ornamental Border Used for the Surround to the General Chart in John Pine's "Tapestry Hangings in the House of Lords"

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · ca. 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pin (ttipqui), by Peruvian artist(s)

Pin (ttipqui)

Peruvian artist(s) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Butter Dish in the Shape of a Folded Napkin, by Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Co., Wallingford, Connecticut,1866 – 1898

Butter Dish in the Shape of a Folded Napkin

Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Co., Wallingford, Connecticut,1866 – 1898 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantle pin (ttipqui)

Mantle pin (ttipqui)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece), by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 7483528 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 18:20 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.