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. 20 shown for “Knife from Folding Cultery Set” — 48 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:01 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.
The Brioche, by Edouard Manet

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Knife from Folding Cultery Set

Knife from Folding Cultery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Donor, by Albert van Ouwater

Head of a Donor

Albert van Ouwater · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork (Part of Traveling Cultery Set)

Folding Fork (Part of Traveling Cultery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Folding Knife (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Folding Knife (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tupu (pin)

Tupu (pin)

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1533 CE

Public domainThe Met
Folding Knife with Gold Plated Silver Handle From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Knife with Gold Plated Silver Handle From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk, by Paul Cézanne

Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk

Paul Cézanne · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book, by Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master"

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Spoon with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Spoon with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Cutlery Set

Folding Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 438669 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 05:01 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.