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 “Fork Tines with Threaded Screw End for Attaching Handle” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 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.
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork

Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Public domainThe Met
Fork Tines with Threaded Screw End for Attaching Handle

Fork Tines with Threaded Screw End for Attaching Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glass pendant shaped like a jug

Glass pendant shaped like a jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
fork tines

fork tines

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · 18th–19th century?

Public domainThe Met
Fork Tines with Threaded Screw Base

Fork Tines with Threaded Screw Base

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well, by Johannes van Ceulen

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well

Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Public domainThe Met
Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug

Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Glass jug

Glass jug

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

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. 30 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. 685377 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-02 22:00 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.