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. 24 shown for “Two apostle spoons” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:43 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.
Two apostle spoons

Two apostle spoons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial

Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1661

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: Master, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: Master

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Apostle Spoon with St. Michael Terminal

Apostle Spoon with St. Michael Terminal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Peter, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Peter

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
St. Christopher Apostle Spoon

St. Christopher Apostle Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Jude, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Jude

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Two Apostles, by Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705

Two Apostles

Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. John, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. John

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Assumption of the Virgin

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Simon Zelotes, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Simon Zelotes

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Three Apostles, by Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609

Three Apostles

Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609 · ca. 1540–1609

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Philip, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Philip

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Gallilee (Lake Tiberias), the Miraculous Draught of Fishes, by Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593 - 1678

Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Gallilee (Lake Tiberias), the Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593 - 1678 · ca. 1650–1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Andrew, by Martin Hewitt

Apostle spoon: St. Andrew

Martin Hewitt · 1613–14

Public domainThe Met
The Apostles Carrying the Body of the Virgin to the Tomb, Study after Lodovico Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Apostles Carrying the Body of the Virgin to the Tomb, Study after Lodovico Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Matthew, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Matthew

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Martyrdom of St. Andrew, by Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875

Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Matthias, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Matthias

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Bartholomew, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Bartholomew

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Spoon, by Phillipe Berthier, French, active Paris 1841-1851

Spoon

Phillipe Berthier, French, active Paris 1841-1851 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Thomas, by William Cawdell

Apostle spoon: St. Thomas

William Cawdell · 1592/93

Public domainThe Met
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden), from the Great Passion

Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden), from the Great Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1498

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. 396 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. 57720 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 23:43 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.