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 “Basin decorated with peonies” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:28 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.
Basin, by Master Potter A

Basin

Master Potter A · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Peonies in the Wind with Kakemono Borders, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Peonies in the Wind with Kakemono Borders

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · ca. 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin decorated with peonies

Basin decorated with peonies

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative panel

Decorative panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by François-Desiré Froment-Meurice

Basin

François-Desiré Froment-Meurice · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Peacocks and Peonies II, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Peacocks and Peonies II

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Samuel Margas Jr.

Basin

Samuel Margas Jr. · ca. 1721

Public domainThe Met
Peacocks and Peonies I, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Peacocks and Peonies I

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Abraham Portal

Basin

Abraham Portal · 1755/56

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1710–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Bernard Palissy

Basin

Bernard Palissy · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork jar with peonies

Openwork jar with peonies

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peonies, by Edouard Manet

Peonies

Edouard Manet · 1864–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ewer

Design for a Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flask-shaped bottle decorated with peonies

Flask-shaped bottle decorated with peonies

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin

Basin

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Straw hat with net and cream peony, by Hattie Carnegie, American, 1886 - 1956

Straw hat with net and cream peony

Hattie Carnegie, American, 1886 - 1956 · 1947-1956

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. 311 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. 348988 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-10 03:28 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.