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 “Raptorial Bird Bottle” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-11 05:21 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.
Raptorial Bird Bottle

Raptorial Bird Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Flask

Flask

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with caiman, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Bottle with caiman

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Weather Frognosticator, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Weather Frognosticator

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 800–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Perfume Bottle and Box Design, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Perfume Bottle and Box Design

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

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

Designs for Ornament and Cases

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dispatch of the Messenger, by François Boucher

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777–79

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Rhabdornis mysticalis minor

Rhabdornis mysticalis minor

Artist not stated in the record · May 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Warrior Bottle

Bird Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with fruits, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with fruits

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird

Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bottle, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Bottle

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1678–1686

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, by William Cleffius

Bottle

William Cleffius · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle in the shape of a bird

Glass bottle in the shape of a bird

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent Bottle, by Unidentified

Scent Bottle

Unidentified · 1760-1780

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. 301 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 590009 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-11 05:21 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.