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. 20 shown for “Tea Caddy Spoon” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:40 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.
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three), by John Swift

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)

John Swift · 1762–63

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy Spoon

Tea Caddy Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three), by John Swift

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)

John Swift · 1762–63

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy Spoon

Tea Caddy Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three), by John Swift

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)

John Swift · 1762–63

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy Spoon, by Edward C. Moore (1827-1891)

Tea Caddy Spoon

Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy spoon

Tea caddy spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–91

Public domainThe Met
Hexagonal Balustrade Tea Caddy, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Hexagonal Balustrade Tea Caddy

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy spoon, by William Hamey

Tea caddy spoon

William Hamey · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy and case

Tea caddy and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy spoon, by John Bettridge

Tea caddy spoon

John Bettridge · 1819–20

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy

Tea Caddy

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy and spoon

Tea caddy and spoon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies, by Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies

Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Caddy, by Simeon Soumaine

Tea Caddy

Simeon Soumaine · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
House Model

House Model

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Caddy, by Simeon Soumaine

Tea Caddy

Simeon Soumaine · 1725–40

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy, by Peter Van Dyck

Tea Caddy

Peter Van Dyck · 1725–40

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy

Tea Caddy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Tea caddy

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · 1745–50

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. 313 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. 11316 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:40 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.