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 “Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 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.
Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Dessert Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Panels

Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-ground Dish with Floral and 'Cintamani' Designs

Blue-ground Dish with Floral and 'Cintamani' Designs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–75

Public domainThe Met
Dish, from a Tea Service

Dish, from a Tea Service

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1505

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish, from a Tea Service

Dish, from a Tea Service

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Heart-Shaped Dessert Dish, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Heart-Shaped Dessert Dish

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Chintz Bar and Broken Dishes

Chintz Bar and Broken Dishes

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Designs

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Floral Decoration

Floral Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Design

Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Design

Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-ground Ewer with Floral, Tiger-stripe and 'Cintamani' Designs

Blue-ground Ewer with Floral, Tiger-stripe and 'Cintamani' Designs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–85

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90s

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1768

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. 173 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. 3796 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 19:21 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.