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. 20 shown for “Bowl in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:27 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 in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower

Bowl in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Ice Cream Spoon

Ice Cream Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chrysanthemum, by Ogata Kenzan

Chrysanthemum

Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Fernand Thesmar

Bowl

Fernand Thesmar · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Dish in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower (one of two)

Dish in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower (one of two)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 2918 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7484519 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 10:27 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.