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. 23 shown for “Design for Salt Cellars” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 08:57 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.
Salt

Salt

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Salt Cellars

Design for Salt Cellars

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trencher Salt, by Bartholomew Le Roux

Trencher Salt

Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trencher Salt, by Bartholomew Le Roux

Trencher Salt

Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for a Salt Cellar

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salt

Salt

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Salt Cellar

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza, by Ottavio Strada

Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza

Ottavio Strada · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Salt Cellar

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with The Story of Semiramis, by Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

Dish with The Story of Semiramis

Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo · 1534

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar in the Shape of a Sleigh

Design for a Salt Cellar in the Shape of a Sleigh

Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing for Centerpiece and Salt Cellars, by Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Drawing for Centerpiece and Salt Cellars

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Sauce Boat and Salt Cellars, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for a Sauce Boat and Salt Cellars

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar

Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Differents Desseins de Sallieres [Various Designs for Salt Dishes], pl. 63 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Differents Desseins de Sallieres [Various Designs for Salt Dishes], pl. 63 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C?

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
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 136 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 501657 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 2026-09-04 08:57 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.