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. 21 shown for “Snuff bottle with boys at play” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:05 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 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 · ca. 1850

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
Playing at Soldiers

Playing at Soldiers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play, by Jean Georges (or George)

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play

Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with mountain sacrifice scene, by Moche artist

Stirrup-spout bottle with mountain sacrifice scene

Moche artist · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle

Snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Lecce Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Lecce Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boys Playing with a Bird

Boys Playing with a Bird

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Boys at Play

Boys at Play

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1800

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
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, by Frans Hals

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
snuff bottle

snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

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
LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff Bottle with Children at Play

Snuff Bottle with Children at Play

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Bottle with Children at Play

Snuff Bottle with Children at Play

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 286 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 478432 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:05 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.