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. 16 shown for “Bowl decorated with linked ibex horns” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:44 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 decorated with linked ibex horns

Bowl decorated with linked ibex horns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5300–4300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil-burning Pendant Lamp

Design for an Oil-burning Pendant Lamp

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Folding spoon, by Gavet Coutelier, France

Folding spoon

Gavet Coutelier, France · 1809–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and stand (présentoir), by Martin Gizl

Ewer and stand (présentoir)

Martin Gizl · 1758

Public domainThe Met
fork

fork

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta bowl with handle

Terracotta bowl with handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), by Vincennes Manufactory

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

Artist not stated in the record · 300–350

Public domainThe Met
Kylix, by Heidelberg Painter, Greek, active 575 - 555 BC

Kylix

Heidelberg Painter, Greek, active 575 - 555 BC · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Lyre

Bowl Lyre

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with radial design of ibex horns

Bowl with radial design of ibex horns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4500–4100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ibex beaker with gilded silver mounts

Ibex beaker with gilded silver mounts

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with carved ibex decoration

Spoon with carved ibex decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 130 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. 335670 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 10:44 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.