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. 12 shown for “Terracotta stemmed plate” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1710–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Gold Plated Honeybee on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Gold Plated Honeybee on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?)," Plate 5 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?)," Plate 5 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Persian Pattern Ice Cream Knife, by Edward C. Moore (1827-1891)

Persian Pattern Ice Cream Knife

Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) · ca. 1872–1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon, by Ball, Black & Co.

"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon

Ball, Black & Co. · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Bee, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Bee

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Red Beetle on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Red Beetle on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1754–1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Choux de Suede, by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786

Choux de Suede

Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1755-68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Spoon with Wasp on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Wasp on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ice Cream Server with Mother-of-Pearl Handle, by François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890

Ice Cream Server with Mother-of-Pearl Handle

François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cake Server with Japonesque Engraving and Mother-of-pearl Handle, by François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890

Cake Server with Japonesque Engraving and Mother-of-pearl Handle

François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 106775 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 2026-08-27 06:30 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.