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 two-handled bottle” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:58 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 two-handled bottle

Glass two-handled bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cruet Stand, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Cruet Stand

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · ca. 1827–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass two-handled bottle

Glass two-handled bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass two-handled bottle

Glass two-handled bottle

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

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

Public domainThe Met
George Washington Relics, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

George Washington Relics

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle

Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th 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
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
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
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
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
Nécessaire (one of a pair), by John Barbot

Nécessaire (one of a pair)

John Barbot · ca. 1760

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 two-handled bottle

Glass two-handled bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Cups and Bottles

Designs for Cups and Bottles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

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

Bottle

Wistarburgh Glassworks · 1738–ca. 1777

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
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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. 2123 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. 633 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 21:58 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.