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 “Sweetmeat Glass” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:01 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.
"Gondola" sweetmeat glass

"Gondola" sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Glass

Sweetmeat Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat dish, by Vienna

Sweetmeat dish

Vienna · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Glass

Sweetmeat Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered sweetmeat dish, by Antonio Salviati

Covered sweetmeat dish

Antonio Salviati · probably late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Dish, by Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868

Sweetmeat Dish

Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868 · 1826–1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweetmeat jar

Sweetmeat jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
dish, sweetmeat

dish, sweetmeat

Artist not stated in the record

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. 66 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. 76037 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 08:01 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.