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 “salver” — 53 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:03 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.
Salver, by Thomas Hamersley

Salver

Thomas Hamersley · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Salvers, by Joseph Ward, English, active 1689 – 1734

A Pair of Salvers

Joseph Ward, English, active 1689 – 1734 · 1697

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Simeon Soumaine

Salver

Simeon Soumaine · 1735–45

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Salvers, by Edward Barrett, Irish, active 1698 – 1722

Pair of Salvers

Edward Barrett, Irish, active 1698 – 1722 · 1708–09

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Charles Le Roux

Salver

Charles Le Roux · ca. 1725–35

Public domainThe Met
Salver

Salver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Daniel Christian Fueter

Salver

Daniel Christian Fueter · 1754–69

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Salvers, by Baldwin Gardiner, American, 1791 – 1869

A Pair of Salvers

Baldwin Gardiner, American, 1791 – 1869 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Nathaniel Hurd

Salver

Nathaniel Hurd · ca. 1756

Public domainThe Met
Footed Salver, by Anthony Nelme, active 1681 - 1722

Footed Salver

Anthony Nelme, active 1681 - 1722 · 1695–1696

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by John Burt Lyng

Salver

John Burt Lyng · 1765–80

Public domainThe Met
Salver with Four Continents, by Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757

Salver with Four Continents

Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757 · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by John Robinson

Salver

John Robinson · 1744–45

Public domainThe Met
Footed Salver, by Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory)

Footed Salver

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1691–1724

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Salver, by John Coney

Footed Salver

John Coney · 1700–1715

Public domainThe Met
salver

salver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square salver, by David Willaume II

Square salver

David Willaume II · 1730

Public domainThe Met
Salver

Salver

Artist not stated in the record · 1694 - 1695

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Samuel Kirk

Salver

Samuel Kirk · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Study of Boy Holding a Salver for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Boy Holding a Salver for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · October 17, 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Simeon Soumaine

Salver

Simeon Soumaine · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Salver

Salver

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by Gottlieb Satzger

Salver

Gottlieb Satzger · 1749–51

Public domainThe Met
The Wine Glass, by James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903

The Wine Glass

James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903 · 1859

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. 138 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 29 matched · 29 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 2026-09-01 19:03 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.