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 “Glassmaking Mold” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:23 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.
Glassmaking Mold

Glassmaking Mold

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Mosaic Glass Patella Cup, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Mosaic Glass Patella Cup

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-2nd century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glassmaking Mold

Glassmaking Mold

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Footed Bowl with Medici Family Arms, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Fragment of a Footed Bowl with Medici Family Arms

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · ca. 1513-1534

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glassmaking Mold

Glassmaking Mold

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

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
Glassmaking Mold

Glassmaking Mold

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket bottle, by American Flint Glass Manufactory

Pocket bottle

American Flint Glass Manufactory · 1769–74

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Flask

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial tazza, by Italian

Armorial tazza

Italian · 1499–1514

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman)

Flask

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum (one of a pair)

Candelabrum (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bottle, by Unidentified

Bottle

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gilded Green Bottle

Gilded Green Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer

Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Unidentified

Vase

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with European and Indian Figures

Bottle with European and Indian Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Unidentified (Roman)

Vase

Unidentified (Roman)

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

Swan-Neck Bottle (Ashkdan)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

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. 124 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. 7733 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 14:23 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.