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 double head-shaped flask” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 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 double head-shaped flask

Glass double head-shaped flask

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double head-shaped flask

Glass double head-shaped flask

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double head-shaped flask

Glass double head-shaped flask

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask and cap

Scent flask and cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double head-shaped flask

Glass double head-shaped flask

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

Public domainThe Met
flask, double

flask, double

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double head-shaped flask

Glass double head-shaped flask

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double head-shaped bottle

Glass double head-shaped bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Matrass

Matrass

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass double head-shaped bottle

Glass double head-shaped bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Glass

Sweetmeat Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass snake-thread flask shaped like a mouse

Glass snake-thread flask shaped like a mouse

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Orange Peeler

Orange Peeler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal flask

Animal flask

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

Public domainThe Met
Bag face

Bag face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Flask

Animal Flask

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

Public domainThe Met
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass head flask

Glass head flask

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 67 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. 369 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 13:50 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.