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 with Character for “Longevity” and Assorted Treasure Motifs” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:51 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 with Character for “Longevity” and Assorted Treasure Motifs

Bowl with Character for “Longevity” and Assorted Treasure Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Grasses and Cranes

Grasses and Cranes

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ivy and Willow Motif

Ivy and Willow Motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Design for two andirons, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for two andirons

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled bowl from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Two-handled bowl from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Artist not stated in the record · Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)

Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Bahram Gur and Azada

Bowl with Bahram Gur and Azada

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl with Spoons, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Sugar Bowl with Spoons

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
High-Tin Bronze Bowl

High-Tin Bronze Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Floral Decoration

Floral Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Surtout de Table, for State Porcelain Service of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, by Gaetano Lodi, Italian, 1830 – 1886

Design for a Surtout de Table, for State Porcelain Service of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt

Gaetano Lodi, Italian, 1830 – 1886 · 1873–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
SUCRIERS DE SERVICE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SUCRIERS DE SERVICE

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with cover

Cup with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–60

Public domainThe Met
Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity", by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"

Taizan Yohei · 1850-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Hiragana and blossoms motif

Hiragana and blossoms motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th 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. 138 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. 1578073 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 23:51 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.