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. 23 shown for “Knife with Earthenware Handle” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:52 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.
Earthenware Lantern

Earthenware Lantern

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Knife with Earthenware Handle

Dinner Knife with Earthenware Handle

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pharmacy Jar with the Arms of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala

Pharmacy Jar with the Arms of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Knife with Earthenware Handle

Dinner Knife with Earthenware Handle

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Jar with Stag

Two-Handled Jar with Stag

Artist not stated in the record · early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Earthenware Handle

Knife with Earthenware Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Daniel Marot the Elder

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)

Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan-shape 'Persian' bottle with handles (one of a pair), by Minton(s)

Fan-shape 'Persian' bottle with handles (one of a pair)

Minton(s) · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)

Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bone knife handle

Bone knife handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fork and Knife with Glazed Earthenware Handles, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Saxony, Germany, founded 1710

Fork and Knife with Glazed Earthenware Handles

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Saxony, Germany, founded 1710 · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod cup with ring handle (bei)

Tripod cup with ring handle (bei)

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Saber-Shaped Blade and Earthenware Handle

Knife with Saber-Shaped Blade and Earthenware Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhyton with handle in the shape of a monkey

Rhyton with handle in the shape of a monkey

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Earthenware Handle

Fork with Earthenware Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife

Knife

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

Public domainThe Met
Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle, by François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890

Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle

François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Posset pot with cover

Posset pot with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle, by François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890

Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle

François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger handle (with 22.3.75b)

Dagger handle (with 22.3.75b)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle, by François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890

Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle

François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle, by François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890

Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle

François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

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. 1452 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 279289 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 11:52 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.