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. 18 shown for “Snuff bottle with gourd on a trellis” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:33 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 gourd on a trellis

Snuff bottle with gourd on a trellis

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–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
Snuffbox with Trellis Patterns

Snuffbox with Trellis Patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Snuff container, by Nguni artist

Snuff container

Nguni artist · Mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle with European figures

Snuff bottle with European figures

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
Snuff Bottle

Snuff Bottle

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 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
Gourd-shaped bottle, by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat

Gourd-shaped bottle

Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat · ca. 1900

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 in the shape of a gourd

Snuff bottle in the shape of a gourd

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Enjoying the Evening Cool under a Gourd Trellis, by Utagawa Toyohiro

Enjoying the Evening Cool under a Gourd Trellis

Utagawa Toyohiro · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Gourd-shaped bottle, by Topará artist(s)

Gourd-shaped bottle

Topará artist(s) · 200 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gourd-shaped bottle, by Topará artist(s)

Gourd-shaped bottle

Topará artist(s) · 200 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Snuff Bottle in the Shape of a Gourd

Snuff Bottle in the Shape of a Gourd

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

Public domainThe Met
Double-spout bottle, by Paracas artist(s)

Double-spout bottle

Paracas artist(s) · 200 BCE–100 CE

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. 79 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. 2510339 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 22:33 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.