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. 19 shown for “Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:21 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.
Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird

Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Flying Cranes

Bottle with Flying Cranes

Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle with boys at play

Snuff bottle with boys at play

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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
Snuff bottle with boys at play

Snuff bottle with boys at play

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle

Snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
snuff bottle

snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 25–50 CE

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
Snuff Bottle with European Woman and Child

Snuff Bottle with European Woman and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Snuff Box Cover (verso); Trophy of Hunting (recto), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Design for a Snuff Box Cover (verso); Trophy of Hunting (recto)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Bottle

Snuff Bottle

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Bottle

Snuff Bottle

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Bottle

Snuff Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Book of Hours, by Simon Bening

Book of Hours

Simon Bening · ca. 1530–35

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. 51 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. 2411785 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:21 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.