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. 16 shown for “Glass cosmetic flask with four compartments (kohl tube)” — 60 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:36 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 cosmetic flask with four compartments (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask with four compartments (kohl tube)

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

Public domainThe Met
Cosmetic flask

Cosmetic flask

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cosmetic flask with four compartments (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask with four compartments (kohl tube)

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

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass multiple cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass multiple cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Writing Desks

Designs for Writing Desks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

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

Public domainThe Met
Lamp

Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Animal flask

Animal flask

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Animal Flask

Animal Flask

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

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

Public domainThe Met
Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 20 matched · 20 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. 335405 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:36 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.