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. 12 shown for “Souvenir spoon with view of a harbor and finial in form of a postage stamp” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:23 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Souvenir spoon with view of a harbor and finial in form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of a harbor and finial in form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Spindle-back chair

Spindle-back chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir spoon with view of Bilbao harbor and tower bridge and finial in form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of Bilbao harbor and tower bridge and finial in form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir spoon with view of a street scene and finial in form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of a street scene and finial in form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir spoon with view of Parque Albear and finial in form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of Parque Albear and finial in form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir spoon with view of a long avenue and finial in the form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of a long avenue and finial in the form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir spoon with view of the Cathedral in León and finial in form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of the Cathedral in León and finial in form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir spoon with view of the Paseo del Maleron and finial in form of a postage stamp

Souvenir spoon with view of the Paseo del Maleron and finial in form of a postage stamp

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 45 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:23 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.