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. 22 shown for “Bartholomäus Seuter” — 36 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:56 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.
Jug, by Bartholomäus Seuter

Jug

Bartholomäus Seuter · 1720

Public domainThe Met
Beaker with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Beaker with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug (Enghalskrug), by Bartholomäus Seuter

Jug (Enghalskrug)

Bartholomäus Seuter · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with flowers and peacock, by Bartholomäus Seuter

Jug with flowers and peacock

Bartholomäus Seuter · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by Meissen Manufactory

Teapot

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Meissen Manufactory

Bowl

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer, by Meissen Manufactory

Cup and saucer

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer, by Meissen Manufactory

Saucer

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Teapot with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Teapot with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caddy, by Meissen Manufactory

Caddy

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer, by Meissen Manufactory

Saucer

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Leda and the Swan, by Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, German, c. 1740–1814

Leda and the Swan

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, German, c. 1740–1814 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled cup, by Meissen Manufactory

Two-handled cup

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Meissen Manufactory

Dish

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Meissen Manufactory

Dish

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 11 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 15:56 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.