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 sprinkler bottle in the shape of a fish” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 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 sprinkler bottle in the shape of a fish

Glass sprinkler bottle in the shape of a fish

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

Public domainThe Met
snuff bottle

snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire (one of a pair), by John Barbot

Nécessaire (one of a pair)

John Barbot · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

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
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprinkler

Sprinkler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant

Microscope

Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, by Wistarburgh Glassworks

Bottle

Wistarburgh Glassworks · 1738–ca. 1777

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

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

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Bottle (Sprinkler), by Unidentified

Bottle (Sprinkler)

Unidentified · 1700-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch, by John Champion

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch

John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Bottle of custom made “Lena” perfume gift with drawstring bag and card, by Unidentified

Bottle of custom made “Lena” perfume gift with drawstring bag and card

Unidentified · after 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Public domainThe Met
Condiment Bottle

Condiment Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard, by James Morisset

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard

James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Condiment Bottle

Condiment Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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. 2733 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. 7483643 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 10:52 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.