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. 19 shown for “Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 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.
Fork, by Nicolas Collier

Fork

Nicolas Collier · 1769–70

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Playing Cards

The Cloisters Playing Cards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set

Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set with glass beaker in case, by Samuel Bardet

Traveling set with glass beaker in case

Samuel Bardet · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set

Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of six forks (part of a set), by Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick

Set of six forks (part of a set)

Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick · 1767–71

Public domainThe Met
Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set

Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set in leather case

Traveling set in leather case

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

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set in leather case, by Johann Ludwig Laminit

Traveling set in leather case

Johann Ludwig Laminit · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Knife from Traveling Cutlery Set

Knife from Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set, by I.F.

Traveling set

I.F. · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Case from Traveling Cutlery Set

Case from Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket canteen (traveling set), by Charles Overing

Pocket canteen (traveling set)

Charles Overing · 1709/10

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of six knives, by Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick

Set of six knives

Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick · 1767–71

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with cover (Écuelle), by Jacques-Pierre Marteau

Bowl with cover (Écuelle)

Jacques-Pierre Marteau · 1769–70

Public domainThe Met
Case

Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–71

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. 84 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. 448770 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 10:43 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.