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 dragon frieze” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:26 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 dragon frieze

Bottle with dragon frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Friezes or Panels, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Friezes or Panels

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall with Three Gothic Arches, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Wall with Three Gothic Arches, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion

Lion

Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Public domainThe Met
Design for a frieze with a dragon, by Carlo Bianconi, Italian, 1732–1802

Design for a frieze with a dragon

Carlo Bianconi, Italian, 1732–1802 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Coiling Dragon

Bottle with Coiling Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Dragon Chasing Pearl

Bottle with Dragon Chasing Pearl

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters

Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze Design, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Frieze Design

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Image of Phoenix

Tile with Image of Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style, by Unknown, Italian

Fragment of Entablature in the Classical Style

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1770–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle

Glass bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Tureen

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820-1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassetta frame, by Unknown

Cassetta frame

Unknown · 1880–1900; made in style of early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Urn with the Representation of the Salvation of Loth

Urn with the Representation of the Salvation of Loth

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Motifs, Three Designs for Fountains, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Decorative Motifs, Three Designs for Fountains

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

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. 89 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 311159 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 06:26 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.