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. 21 shown for “Taperstick (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:02 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.
Miniature taperstick (one of a pair), by David Clayton

Miniature taperstick (one of a pair)

David Clayton · ca. 1720–30

Public domainThe Met
Taperstick (One of Four), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Taperstick (One of Four)

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick (One of Four), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Taperstick (One of Four)

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick (one of a pair)

Taperstick (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Taperstick (One of Four), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Taperstick (One of Four)

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick (one of a pair)

Taperstick (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Taperstick (One of Four), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Taperstick (One of Four)

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick (one of a pair)

Taperstick (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
Four Tapersticks, by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Four Tapersticks

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick (one of a pair)

Taperstick (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing shelf (one of a pair), by William Linnell

Standing shelf (one of a pair)

William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cooler (one of a pair), by William Lukin I

Wine cooler (one of a pair)

William Lukin I · 1716/17

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. 4255 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. 3969055 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 20:02 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.