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 “Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 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.
Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tea Kettle and Stand, by William Fawdery, British, active 1698 – 1727

Tea Kettle and Stand

William Fawdery, British, active 1698 – 1727 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles

Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles

Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Hot Water Urn, by Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s

Hot Water Urn

Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s · 1770–1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle, lamp, and table, by Simon Pantin I

Teakettle, lamp, and table

Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp Stand, by Abdullah Haidar al-Husaini

Lamp Stand

Abdullah Haidar al-Husaini · 1027–29 AH/1617–18 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tobacco box

Tobacco box

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with a Cylindrical Body

Engraved Lamp Stand with a Cylindrical Body

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 16th or early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Coffee-pot and Stand from

Coffee-pot and Stand from

Artist not stated in the record · 1714

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Cartouches and Medallions

Engraved Lamp Stand with Cartouches and Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle, by John C. Moore

Teakettle

John C. Moore · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Comb

Design for a Comb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oil lamp

Terracotta oil lamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 150–225 CE

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Pentecost

Plaque with the Pentecost

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Butter Lamps

Pair of Butter Lamps

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Lamp

Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar

Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar

Artist not stated in the record · shortly after 1285

Public domainThe Met
The Third Wise Virgin, by Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491

The Third Wise Virgin

Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1490

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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 451720 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 08:04 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.