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. 23 shown for “Spoon with carved ibex decoration” — 55 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:59 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.
Spoon with carved ibex decoration

Spoon with carved ibex decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Carved Figural Coral Handle

Spoon with Carved Figural Coral Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and stand (présentoir), by Martin Gizl

Ewer and stand (présentoir)

Martin Gizl · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Spoon

Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibex beaker with gilded silver mounts

Ibex beaker with gilded silver mounts

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle

Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup with Running Ibexes

Cup with Running Ibexes

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Small Spoon with Fluted Ivory Handle, by Joseph Willmore

Small Spoon with Fluted Ivory Handle

Joseph Willmore · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Designs

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Fork with Ivory Handle

Traveling Fork with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incised furniture plaque with two ibexes flanking a stylized palmette tree

Incised furniture plaque with two ibexes flanking a stylized palmette tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spoon from an Ivory Cutlery Set

Spoon from an Ivory Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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

Bottle with Flying Cranes

Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Thurible, Boat and Spoon, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Thurible, Boat and Spoon

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic box in the shape of a composite capital

Cosmetic box in the shape of a composite capital

Artist not stated in the record · 664–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle

Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lidded prestige vessel, by "Unobadula"

Lidded prestige vessel

"Unobadula" · Mid–late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
snuff bottle

snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 2 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. 317384 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-03 12:59 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.