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. 23 shown for “Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:38 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-Painted Dish from Malqata

Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish (fragment)

Dish (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Dish, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Sweetmeat Dish

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish, by De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774

Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish

De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · ca. 1705–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata

Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish, by De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774

Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish

De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · ca. 1705–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene, by John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene

John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Dish, by John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860

Dessert Dish

John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490–1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A blue glass dish filled with fruit

A blue glass dish filled with fruit

Artist not stated in the record · likely 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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

Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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. 322 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. 2464 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:38 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.