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 “Stencil with Bottle Gourds and Vines” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 00:22 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.
Stencil with Bottle Gourds and Vines

Stencil with Bottle Gourds and Vines

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
Scepter (ruyi) with gourds and vines

Scepter (ruyi) with gourds and vines

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

Public domainThe Met
Leafy Vine

Leafy Vine

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-shaped vase with gourds and bats

Gourd-shaped vase with gourds and bats

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Abstract Arabesque Vines

Abstract Arabesque Vines

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with Scrolling Vine and Gourds

Jar with Scrolling Vine and Gourds

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

Frieze

Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-Shaped Bottle

Gourd-Shaped Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Morning Glory and Vines

Morning Glory and Vines

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Case with Bottle Gourds and Vines

Fan Case with Bottle Gourds and Vines

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

Public domainThe Met
Vest

Vest

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Sidewall, by J. B. Nothnagel

Sidewall

J. B. Nothnagel · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-shaped bottle, by Topará artist(s)

Gourd-shaped bottle

Topará artist(s) · 200 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Clover

Clover

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-Shaped Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Carved Floral Design and Jewel

Gourd-Shaped Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Carved Floral Design and Jewel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Abstract Gourd Motif

Abstract Gourd Motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Grapevine, by Nomura Choheisai

Inrō with Grapevine

Nomura Choheisai · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Flowers

Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-shaped bottle, by Topará artist(s)

Gourd-shaped bottle

Topará artist(s) · 200 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ivy Silhouette Motif

Ivy Silhouette Motif

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jardinière, by Vieillard & Cie., active Bordeaux, France 1845 – ca. 1895

Design for a Jardinière

Vieillard & Cie., active Bordeaux, France 1845 – ca. 1895 · 1875–85

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. 93 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. 1527720 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-30 00:22 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.