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. 20 shown for “Snuff Bottle with Flowers and Rocks” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:38 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.
Snuff bottle with flowers and rocks

Snuff bottle with flowers and rocks

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle

Snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff Bottle with Flowers and Rocks

Snuff Bottle with Flowers and Rocks

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
snuff bottle

snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle with flowers and rocks

Snuff bottle with flowers and rocks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920–40

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle

Snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers, by Liang Yuwei

Flowers

Liang Yuwei · Undated

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–93

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
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle in imitation of painted enamel metalwork

Snuff bottle in imitation of painted enamel metalwork

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Johann Neuber of Schwartzenberg

Snuffbox

Johann Neuber of Schwartzenberg · 1770–80

Public domainThe Met
bottle, snuff

bottle, snuff

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Rocks and Flowers

Vase with Rocks and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle with eight horses

Snuff bottle with eight horses

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle with landscape and horses

Snuff bottle with landscape and horses

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Teapot

Teapot

Artist not stated in the record · rock crystal ca. 1700, mounts ca. 1720

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. 756 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1597849 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:38 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.