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. 22 shown for “Designs for Glass Scent Bottles” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:48 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.
Nécessaire (one of a pair), by John Barbot

Nécessaire (one of a pair)

John Barbot · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Glass Scent Bottles

Designs for Glass Scent Bottles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scent bottle, by Vienna

Scent bottle

Vienna · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Scent Bottle

Scent Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scent bottle, by Vienna

Scent bottle

Vienna · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Double-Ended Scent Bottle

Double-Ended Scent Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther

Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther

Artist not stated in the record · after 1665

Public domainThe Met
Scent bottle and lid

Scent bottle and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scent bottle

Scent bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1770

Public domainThe Met
Scent bottle with Minerva and Mercury

Scent bottle with Minerva and Mercury

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1770

Public domainThe Met
Swan-Neck Glass Bottle

Swan-Neck Glass Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moon-Shaped Bottle

Moon-Shaped Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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
Bottle with Impressed Decorations

Bottle with Impressed Decorations

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Scent bottle case

Scent bottle case

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Molded Designs of Animals

Bottle with Molded Designs of Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration

Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent bottle

Scent bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle in the shape of a fish

Glass bottle in the shape of a fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent Bottle (Aryballos), by Unidentified (Roman)

Scent Bottle (Aryballos)

Unidentified (Roman) · 600-300 B.C.

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. 205 matched · 24 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. 559786 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 04:48 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.