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 flask decorated with intersecting circles” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:12 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 flask decorated with intersecting circles

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

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

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

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

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–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 flask decorated with intersecting circles

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

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

Public domainThe Met
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

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
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug decorated with intersecting circles

Glass jug decorated with intersecting circles

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

Public domainThe Met
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Scent flask

Scent flask

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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
Scent flask and cap

Scent flask and cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass flask

Glass flask

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Flask

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st-4th century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal flask

Animal flask

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

Public domainThe Met
Ball Flask with Paten Reliefs, by Unidentified (Roman)

Ball Flask with Paten Reliefs

Unidentified (Roman) · 3rd Century A. D.

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. 281 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. 328424 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-30 08:12 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.