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 “Altar Bowl with Fish” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 03:18 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.
Altar Bowl with Fish

Altar Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
An altar dedicated to Apollo

An altar dedicated to Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
The elevation of an altar with alternative suggestions

The elevation of an altar with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Various Decorations including "Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome", by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Various Decorations including "Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome"

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Various Decorations including Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for Various Decorations including Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar

Altar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 232

Public domainThe Met
Eight Sacrificial Scenes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Eight Sacrificial Scenes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790-1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish, by William Merritt Chase

Fish

William Merritt Chase · by 1910

Public domainThe Met
Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1810

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for Altar Candlesticks for a Jesuit Church, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Three Designs for Altar Candlesticks for a Jesuit Church

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Fish

Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1300

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Candle Brackets

Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Candle Brackets

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Fish Motifs

Bowl with Fish Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Chalice in Chaplain Kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

Chalice in Chaplain Kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with two fish

Bowl with two fish

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

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. 161 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. 428493 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 03:18 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.