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 depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:58 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 depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch

Bowl depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

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

Public domainThe Met
Man with Arrow, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man with Arrow

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

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
Bacchanal

Bacchanal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
A Man with a Bird, by Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

A Man with a Bird

Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Meissen Manufactory

Coffeepot

Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Standing Cup

Standing Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reciting Poetry in a Garden

Reciting Poetry in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
A Family in a Landscape, by Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

A Family in a Landscape

Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope

Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Figure and Birds

Bowl with a Figure and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a Chinese Man or Servant Holding a Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Figure of a Chinese Man or Servant Holding a Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile Fragment Depicting Figures in a Landscape

Textile Fragment Depicting Figures in a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1008 AH/1599–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer

Cup and Saucer

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Covered Cups, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork), by Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550

Design for Covered Cups, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

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. 283 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. 2806891 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 12:58 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.