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. 18 shown for “Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle” — 46 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:03 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.
Serving Knife

Serving Knife

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle

Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serving Knife

Serving Knife

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th 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
Table fork

Table fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
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
Table fork

Table fork

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Brass Handle

Knife with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carving knife and fork

Carving knife and fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Brass Handle

Knife with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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 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
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork with Damascened Floral Handle, by FGS

Folding Fork with Damascened Floral Handle

FGS · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 907 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 14:03 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.