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. 24 shown for “Snuffbox” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:17 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.
Snuffbox, by Mathieu Coiny fils

Snuffbox

Mathieu Coiny fils · 1759–60

Public domainThe Met
Two Snuffbox Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Two Snuffbox Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Daniel Govaers (or Gouers)

Snuffbox

Daniel Govaers (or Gouers) · 1734–35

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox, by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Snuffbox

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Louis-Philippe Demay

Snuffbox

Louis-Philippe Demay · 1766–67

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox, by Pierre Fromery, French, 1655–1738

Snuffbox

Pierre Fromery, French, 1655–1738 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Jean Ducrollay

Snuffbox

Jean Ducrollay · 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox Design, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Snuffbox Design

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Saint-Cloud factory

Snuffbox

Saint-Cloud factory · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

Snuffbox

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Jean Frémin

Snuffbox

Jean Frémin · 1755–56

Public domainThe Met
snuffbox

snuffbox

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox

Snuffbox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Two Snuffbox Lid Designs, by G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713

Two Snuffbox Lid Designs

G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Louis Roucel

Snuffbox

Louis Roucel · 1769–1770

Public domainThe Met
Two Snuffbox Lid Designs, by G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713

Two Snuffbox Lid Designs

G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Louis-Philippe Demay

Snuffbox

Louis-Philippe Demay · 1764–65

Public domainThe Met
Box or Snuffbox Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Box or Snuffbox Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Daniel Govaers (or Gouers)

Snuffbox

Daniel Govaers (or Gouers) · 1732–38

Public domainThe Met
Box or Snuffbox Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Box or Snuffbox Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Sèvres Manufactory

Snuffbox

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Box or Snuffbox Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Box or Snuffbox Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

Snuffbox

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Snuffbox Design, by G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713

Title Page and Snuffbox Design

G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713 · 1710

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. 591 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. 214 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 05:17 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.