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 “Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:49 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.
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · porcelain mid-18th century, mounts ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Two-Tined Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Two-Tined Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair), by Alexandre Evariste Fragonard

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)

Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases, by Sèvres Manufactory

Pair of vases

Sèvres Manufactory · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · after 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Walking Stick with Companion Hunting Sword, Knife, and Scabbard

Walking Stick with Companion Hunting Sword, Knife, and Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork, by Nicolas Collier

Fork

Nicolas Collier · 1769–70

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan-shape 'Persian' bottle with handles (one of a pair), by Minton(s)

Fan-shape 'Persian' bottle with handles (one of a pair)

Minton(s) · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · after 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Century Vase, by Karl L. H. Müller

Century Vase

Karl L. H. Müller · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

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. 126 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. 299381 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 2026-09-01 07:49 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.