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. 15 shown for “Pair of Torah finials (Rimmonim)” — 43 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:43 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.
Pair of Torah finials (Rimmonim)

Pair of Torah finials (Rimmonim)

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90

Public domainThe Met
Finial

Finial

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Torah finials (rimonim), by A.M.

Pair of Torah finials (rimonim)

A.M. · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Seafood Skewer with Dolphin and Trident Finial

Seafood Skewer with Dolphin and Trident Finial

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Torah finials (rimonim), by Andrea Zambelli "L'Honnesta"

Pair of Torah finials (rimonim)

Andrea Zambelli "L'Honnesta" · ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Seafood Skewer with Dolphin and Trident Finial

Seafood Skewer with Dolphin and Trident Finial

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Fountain

Project for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of urns

Pair of urns

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Stand of 17th Century Spanish Cabinet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Stand of 17th Century Spanish Cabinet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Chambersticks with Snuffers, by William Cafe, British

Pair of Chambersticks with Snuffers

William Cafe, British · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Tureen

Design for a Tureen

Artist not stated in the record · 1825-1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2860581 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-04 18:43 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.