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 “Designs for Snuff Box Covers” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 10:53 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.
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Snuff Box Covers

Designs for Snuff Box Covers

Artist not stated in the record · 1717-1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Jean-Joseph Barrière

Box

Jean-Joseph Barrière · 1765–66

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Snuff Box Cover (verso); Trophy of Hunting (recto), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Design for a Snuff Box Cover (verso); Trophy of Hunting (recto)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by J. P. M., Paris, France

Box

J. P. M., Paris, France · 1766–67

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box

Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Claude-François Thierry

Box

Claude-François Thierry · 1779–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box

Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by François-Nicolas Chevance

Box

François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box

Snuff Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Circular snuff box, by Claude-Pierre Pottier, French, active 1778 - 1806

Circular snuff box

Claude-Pierre Pottier, French, active 1778 - 1806 · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs for Case Covers, Roundels, and Bands, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Ornament Designs for Case Covers, Roundels, and Bands

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Box

Snuff Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered box from an incense set

Covered box from an incense set

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff box

Snuff box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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. 471 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 581164 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-06 10:53 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.