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. 19 shown for “Mirror case” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:31 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.
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Mirror and case

Mirror and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Mirror, Life Jacket, Glenn, Friendship 7, by Unknown

Mirror, Life Jacket, Glenn, Friendship 7

Unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lacquer Mirror Case, by Fathallah Shirazi

Lacquer Mirror Case

Fathallah Shirazi · dated 1295 AH/1878 CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party

Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–60

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

Mirror from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Life Jacket with Camera Mirror, Glenn, Friendship 7, by Unknown

Life Jacket with Camera Mirror, Glenn, Friendship 7

Unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch, by Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani

Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch

Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani · dated 1271 AH/1854 CE

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

Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Mirror case

Mirror case

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Mirror Case, by Zain al-'Abidin

Mirror Case

Zain al-'Abidin · dated 1260 AH/1844–45 CE

Public domainThe Met
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 253 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. 21757 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:31 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.