OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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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 “inkstand” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Inkstand, by John Coney

Inkstand

John Coney · 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Charles-August LeBourg, French, 1829 – 1906

Inkstand

Charles-August LeBourg, French, 1829 – 1906 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by William Crolius

Inkstand

William Crolius · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Paul Sormani, French, 1817 – ca. 1877

Inkstand

Paul Sormani, French, 1817 – ca. 1877 · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Lowestoft

Inkstand

Lowestoft · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand owned by the Terrell family, by Frank A. Weeks Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1909

Inkstand owned by the Terrell family

Frank A. Weeks Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1909 · early-mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

Inkstand

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company · 1830–40

Public domainThe Met
inkstand

inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Wedgwood and Bentley

Inkstand

Wedgwood and Bentley · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Varages Pottery Factory, French, active 18th century

Inkstand

Varages Pottery Factory, French, active 18th century · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by John Plimmer

Inkstand

John Plimmer · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Simon Pantin I

Inkstand

Simon Pantin I · 1725–26

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Richard Morton and Co.

Inkstand

Richard Morton and Co. · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Inkstand, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for an Inkstand

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Peter Harache I

Inkstand

Peter Harache I · 1690–91

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Inkstand, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for an Inkstand

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1805–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand, by Daniel Garnier

Inkstand

Daniel Garnier · 1697–98

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Inkstand

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Inkstand

Design for an Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · 1760s–70s

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. 93 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. 114 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-02 07:07 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.