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 “Bird with Peach Spray” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 16:56 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.
Bird with Peach Spray

Bird with Peach Spray

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit and Flowers, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Fruit and Flowers

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life of Grapes and Peaches, by Panfilo Nuvolone

Still Life of Grapes and Peaches

Panfilo Nuvolone · ca. 1617

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Floral peach brocade evening jacket, by Unidentified

Floral peach brocade evening jacket

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary relief

Funerary relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with a Phoenix and Birds in a Rock Garden

Panel with a Phoenix and Birds in a Rock Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with peaches and bats

Dish with peaches and bats

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tureen and Stand, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tureen and Stand

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds in Willows and Blossoming Peach Tree, by Yosa Buson

Birds in Willows and Blossoming Peach Tree

Yosa Buson · ca. 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

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

Bowl

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1679–1691

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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 818868 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-07 16:56 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.