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 a Knife Handle Showing Faith” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 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.
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Knife Handle Showing Faith

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Faith

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Knife Handle Showing Prudence

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Prudence

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1675

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
Design for a Knife Handle Showing One of the Virtues

Design for a Knife Handle Showing One of the Virtues

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Knife Handle Showing Charity

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Charity

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder

Commode

Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Knife Handles, by Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563

Design for Two Knife Handles

Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563 · 1583

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō), by Sukemitsu of Bizen

Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō)

Sukemitsu of Bizen · sword (katana) blade, dated 1440; short sword (wakizashi) blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Knife Handles, by Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563

Design for Two Knife Handles

Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563 · 1583

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paper knife, by Castellani

Paper knife

Castellani · ca. 1863

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steel Knife with Ivory Handle

Steel Knife with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife Handle with Threaded Screw End for Attaching to Blade

Knife Handle with Threaded Screw End for Attaching to Blade

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki), by Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa)

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki), by Gotō Tsūjō

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

Gotō Tsūjō · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serving Knife

Serving Knife

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles

Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serving Knife

Serving Knife

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

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. 449 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. 2108655 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 17:20 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.