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 “Bottle with Lotus Scroll” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Bottle with Lotus Scroll

Bottle with Lotus Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Peony Scroll

Bottle with Peony Scroll

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

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941

Textile

Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, by Christopher Dresser

Bottle

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1862

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Floral Scroll

Ewer with Floral Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
snuff bottle

snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with lotus scrolls

Bottle with lotus scrolls

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

Public domainThe Met
Scent Bottle

Scent Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with lotus scrolls

Bottle with lotus scrolls

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

Public domainThe Met
Gold and glass perfume bottle from Mae's Millinery Shop

Gold and glass perfume bottle from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle

Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sofa

Sofa

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Incised Lotus Flowers

Bowl with Incised Lotus Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century or later

Public domainThe Met
Strainer, by Caughley Porcelain Factory, English, 1755 - 1814

Strainer

Caughley Porcelain Factory, English, 1755 - 1814 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Manjushri

Bodhisattva Manjushri

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Kang or furniture cover

Kang or furniture cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 304 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 263688 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 11:45 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.