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. 23 shown for “Traveling Spoon” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:16 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.
Spoon

Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Spoon

Traveling Spoon

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling spoon and fork, by Joseph-Baptiste Fuchs

Traveling spoon and fork

Joseph-Baptiste Fuchs · ca. 1833

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle

Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon, by Nicolas Collier

Spoon

Nicolas Collier · 1769–70

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Knife

Traveling Knife

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon, by H. H., London

Spoon

H. H., London · 1874–75

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Fork

Traveling Fork

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set, by I.F.

Traveling set

I.F. · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set in leather case, by Johann Ludwig Laminit

Traveling set in leather case

Johann Ludwig Laminit · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set with glass beaker in case, by Samuel Bardet

Traveling set with glass beaker in case

Samuel Bardet · 1777–79

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set in leather case

Traveling set in leather case

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

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Fork with Ivory Handle

Traveling Fork with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork and spoon (part of a traveling set)

Fork and spoon (part of a traveling set)

Artist not stated in the record · 1768

Public domainThe Met
Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle

Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teabowl and Accessories

Teabowl and Accessories

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon From a Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Spoon From a Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling set

Traveling set

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Spoon (part of a traveling set)

Spoon (part of a traveling set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

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. 41 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 16309 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-29 13:16 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.