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. 16 shown for “Slotted Spoon with Rosette Motif” — 44 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 15:10 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.
Matchlock Musket (me mda')

Matchlock Musket (me mda')

Artist not stated in the record · barrel, probably 18th–19th century; stock and other fittings, probably mid-19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Slotted Spoon with Rosette Motif

Slotted Spoon with Rosette Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astrolabe, by Regiomontanus

Astrolabe

Regiomontanus · 1462

Public domainThe Met
SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES., by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES.

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vinaigrette, by Joseph Taylor

Vinaigrette

Joseph Taylor · 1806

Public domainThe Met
Cutlery Designs, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Cutlery Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by John Plimmer

Inkstand

John Plimmer · 1802

Public domainThe Met
CUILLIERES ET FOURCHETTES, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

CUILLIERES ET FOURCHETTES

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Surtout et Sucrier pour le Café, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Surtout et Sucrier pour le Café

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
SUCRIER A CAFÉ, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SUCRIER A CAFÉ

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Slotted Spoon with Scalloped Edge

Slotted Spoon with Scalloped Edge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan et Elévation d'un Salon du côté de la Cheminée, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plan et Elévation d'un Salon du côté de la Cheminée

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 258639 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 15:10 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.