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 “Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:57 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.
Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design

Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a large bowl

Fragmentary base of a large bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware

Bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl

Fragmentary base of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Shiga ware cylindrical tea bowl in Oribe style

Shiga ware cylindrical tea bowl in Oribe style

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faceted Basin, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Faceted Basin, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware tea bowl for the New Year, with three impressed seals reading "Shuhei", by Ogata Shuhei (1788-1839)

Kyoto ware tea bowl for the New Year, with three impressed seals reading "Shuhei"

Ogata Shuhei (1788-1839) · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobed bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware

Lobed bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses, by Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871)

Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses

Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871) · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partial tea set (teapot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, slop bowl), by Union Porcelain Works

Partial tea set (teapot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, slop bowl)

Union Porcelain Works · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Fragment decorated with a duck

Fragment decorated with a duck

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner

Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl with reserve design of fans, by Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)

Tea bowl with reserve design of fans

Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Horseman

Bowl with a Horseman

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century, with early 20th century additions

Public domainThe Met
Two fragments of a lid

Two fragments of a lid

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with decorative medallions

Bowl with decorative medallions

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with a figure

Fragment with a figure

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th 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. 268 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. 36320 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 04:57 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.