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. 16 shown for “Cruet frame with five cruets” — 61 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:46 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.
Cruet frame with five cruets

Cruet frame with five cruets

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–71

Public domainThe Met
Cruet Set

Cruet Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet frame with later glass bottles, by Richard Jarry

Cruet frame with later glass bottles

Richard Jarry · 1717–22

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cruet Frame with Alternative Suggestions, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for a Cruet Frame with Alternative Suggestions

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet Stand, by Myer Myers

Cruet Stand

Myer Myers · 1765–76

Public domainThe Met
Cruet Stand

Cruet Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of cruets and cruet stands, by Paul de Lamerie

Pair of cruets and cruet stands

Paul de Lamerie · 1749–50

Public domainThe Met
Cruet with cover

Cruet with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Cruet Frame, by Henri Auguste

Design for a Cruet Frame

Henri Auguste

Public domainThe Met
Cruet

Cruet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet

Cruet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet

Cruet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet

Cruet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet Stand

Cruet Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
cruet/stand

cruet/stand

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand for Oil or Vinegar Cruets (Porte Huilier or Porte Vinaigrier), by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Stand for Oil or Vinegar Cruets (Porte Huilier or Porte Vinaigrier)

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid- 18th century

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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 262872 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 07:46 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.