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. 15 shown for “Wire frame, spray holders” — 49 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 15:41 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.
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, spray holders

Wire frame, spray holders

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Pianoforte, by Érard

Grand Pianoforte

Érard · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, spray stand

Wire frame, spray stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harmoniphon, by Paris, Lecrosnier & Tremblai

Harmoniphon

Paris, Lecrosnier & Tremblai · after 1836

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, casket piece holder

Wire frame, casket piece holder

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, bouquet support

Wire frame, bouquet support

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, casket cover piece

Wire frame, casket cover piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, casket cover piece

Wire frame, casket cover piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, victor's wreath

Wire frame, victor's wreath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, wire and filigree

Bouquet holder, wire and filigree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porcelain hatpin holder from Mae's Millinery Shop, by Unidentified

Porcelain hatpin holder from Mae's Millinery Shop

Unidentified · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black skullcap wtih rhinestones and feathers, by Unidentified

Black skullcap wtih rhinestones and feathers

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidery sample

Embroidery sample

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26186 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-09 15:41 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.