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 “Etui” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 15:45 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.
Étui, by Robert Sayer

Étui

Robert Sayer · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Trompe-l'Oeil Étui

Trompe-l'Oeil Étui

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui

Étui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Trompe l'Oeil Étui, by Unknown

Trompe l'Oeil Étui

Unknown · mid- to late-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Etui

Etui

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal

Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Mathieu Coiny fils

Étui

Mathieu Coiny fils · 1771–72

Public domainThe Met
Etui Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Etui Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Nicolas Durier

Étui

Nicolas Durier · 1768–74

Public domainThe Met
Etuis Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Etuis Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Germain Chayé

Étui

Germain Chayé · 1764–65

Public domainThe Met
Etui Fork with Green-stained Ivory and Mother-of-Pearl Handle

Etui Fork with Green-stained Ivory and Mother-of-Pearl Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Philippe Ernst Schindler (the younger)

Étui

Philippe Ernst Schindler (the younger) · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Goldbox and Etui Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Album of Goldbox and Etui Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Etienne Pierre Rousselet

Étui

Etienne Pierre Rousselet · 1789–90

Public domainThe Met
Etui

Etui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Toussaint-François Pillieux

Étui

Toussaint-François Pillieux · 1785–86

Public domainThe Met
Etui and cover

Etui and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui, by Pierre Claude Mothé

Étui

Pierre Claude Mothé · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Étui

Étui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Etui and cover

Etui and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Étui

Étui

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Etui

Etui

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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. 330 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. 80 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 15:45 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.