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. 24 shown for “Salt cellar” — 62 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:12 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.
Salt Cellar

Salt Cellar

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar

Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salt Cellar and Snuff Boxes, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Salt Cellar and Snuff Boxes

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza, by Ottavio Strada

Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza

Ottavio Strada · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Salt Cellars

Design for Salt Cellars

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Salt Cellar

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Sauce Boat and Salt Cellars, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for a Sauce Boat and Salt Cellars

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C?

Public domainThe Met
Mustard Pot, Lantern, Salt Cellar, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Mustard Pot, Lantern, Salt Cellar

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Salt Cellar

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Salt Cellars, by René Boyvin

Two Salt Cellars

René Boyvin · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing for Centerpiece and Salt Cellars, by Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Drawing for Centerpiece and Salt Cellars

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for a Salt Cellar

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Dish, Two Egg Cups, and Two Salt Cellars, by Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

Covered Dish, Two Egg Cups, and Two Salt Cellars

Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Salt cellar

Salt cellar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Salt-cellars, by René Boyvin

Two Salt-cellars

René Boyvin

Public domainThe Met
Pair of salt cellars

Pair of salt cellars

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Parade Egg Cups and Combined Egg Cup/Salt Cellar with Lid, by Erasmus Hornick

Design for Parade Egg Cups and Combined Egg Cup/Salt Cellar with Lid

Erasmus Hornick · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Salt Cellar

Salt Cellar

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 2 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. 9834 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 07:12 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.