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. 22 shown for “Parasol handle” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 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.
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Parasol handle

Parasol handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–89

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Duncan Glass Company

Pitcher

Duncan Glass Company · 1880–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Brown parasol with wood handle from Mae's Millinery Shop

Brown parasol with wood handle from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Court Ladies among cherry trees (left); Cherry blossoms, a high fence and retainers (right), by Style of Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Court Ladies among cherry trees (left); Cherry blossoms, a high fence and retainers (right)

Style of Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1590-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Pewter-Mounted Tankard, by Johann Gregorius Höroldt, German, 1696 - 1775

Pewter-Mounted Tankard

Johann Gregorius Höroldt, German, 1696 - 1775 · 1732-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–89

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Silver Handle

Fork with Silver Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–80

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle

Knife with Porcelain Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–59

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume with Pink and Green Skirts and Green Parasol

Paper Doll Costume with Pink and Green Skirts and Green Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a woman holding a closed parasol

Photograph of a woman holding a closed parasol

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol, by Dupuy

Parasol

Dupuy · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Parasol cover

Parasol cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–69

Public domainThe Met
Parasol

Parasol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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. 54 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 18897 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:18 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.