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. 15 shown for “Food mold” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:54 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.
Food warmer with insert, by Vienna

Food warmer with insert

Vienna · ca. 1730–35

Public domainThe Met
Food mold

Food mold

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Food mold

Food mold

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Food mold

Food mold

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

One from set of five squared food vessels (mukōzuke) for tea-gathering meal

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Low Table or Stand

Low Table or Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass jar with lid

Glass jar with lid

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

Public domainThe Met
Harpokrates with double crown, cornucopia, and pot

Harpokrates with double crown, cornucopia, and pot

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Swan-Neck Bottle (Ashkdan)

Swan-Neck Bottle (Ashkdan)

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

Public domainThe Met
Hippopotamus ("William")

Hippopotamus ("William")

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Figurine of a Female (?) Seated Personage with Elaborate Headdress

Figurine of a Female (?) Seated Personage with Elaborate Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th 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. 38 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. 25162 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 17:54 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.