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 square bottle with base inscription” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:21 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 square bottle with base inscription

Glass square bottle with base inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd 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 square bottle with base inscription

Glass square bottle with base inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd 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
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
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 square bottle

Glass square bottle

Artist not stated in the record · mid 1st–end of 2nd 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 square bottle

Glass square bottle

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

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

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Swan-Neck Glass Bottle

Swan-Neck Glass Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

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

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

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
Glass base fragment of a cylindrical bottle

Glass base fragment of a cylindrical bottle

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

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

Soap Dish from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with flowers of the four seasons

Bottle with flowers of the four seasons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

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

Soap Dish from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass 'Mercury' bottle

Glass 'Mercury' bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd 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
Short-Necked bottle

Short-Necked bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th 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
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. 817 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 366122 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 13:21 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.