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. 22 shown for “Two Tined Fork With Engraved Braided Pattern” — 50 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:02 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.
Toasting fork

Toasting fork

Artist not stated in the record · 1561

Public domainThe Met
Two Tined Fork With Engraved Braided Pattern

Two Tined Fork With Engraved Braided Pattern

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late13th century

Public domainThe Met
Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle

Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier, by Pietro de Formicano

Rapier

Pietro de Formicano · ca. 1610–20

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Matchlock Musket

Matchlock Musket

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork from Folding Cutlery Set

Fork from Folding Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Spiral Pattern Handle

Fork with Spiral Pattern Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prostibula vel (ut mollius dicam) amica Veneta; Ducis Veneti Vxor; Nobilis matrona Veneta; Virgo Veneta, by Abraham de Bruyn

Prostibula vel (ut mollius dicam) amica Veneta; Ducis Veneti Vxor; Nobilis matrona Veneta; Virgo Veneta

Abraham de Bruyn · 1580

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Public domainThe Met
Two-Tined Fork with Earthenware Handle

Two-Tined Fork with Earthenware Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of a Young Woman

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Two Long Tined Fork with Brass Panel Decoration

Two Long Tined Fork with Brass Panel Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle

Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 478533 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 14:02 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.