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 “Glass bottle with dolphin handles” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 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.
Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Glass bottle with dolphin handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Glass bottle with dolphin handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories, by Wogdon & Barton

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories

Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spindle Bottle with Handle

Spindle Bottle with Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with handles

Glass bottle with handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Nail File from Traveling Dressing Case

Nail File from Traveling Dressing Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Floral Scroll

Ewer with Floral Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tweezers from Traveling Dressing Case

Tweezers from Traveling Dressing Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Four Handles

Bottle with Four Handles

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Crochet Hook from Traveling Dressing Case

Crochet Hook from Traveling Dressing Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with two handles

Glass bottle with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Awl from Traveling Dressing Case

Awl from Traveling Dressing Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass lentoid bottle with two handles

Glass lentoid bottle with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with three feet

Glass bottle with three feet

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

Public domainThe Met
Kit, Medical, Douglas World Cruiser, Lt. Lowell Smith (REPLICA)

Kit, Medical, Douglas World Cruiser, Lt. Lowell Smith (REPLICA)

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle

Glass bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Mirror from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Mirror from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass one-handled bottle

Glass one-handled bottle

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

Public domainThe Met
Toothbrush Case from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Toothbrush Case from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

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. 295 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. 330120 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 11:38 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.