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 with Cover” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 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 Cover

Bowl with Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with cover

Bowl with cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Tureen

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with cover

Bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Covered Bowl or Box

Covered Bowl or Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with cover, by James Shruder

Bowl with cover

James Shruder · 1737/38

Public domainThe Met
Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tureen, by Thomas Bradbury and Son, English, 1795 – 1943

Tureen

Thomas Bradbury and Son, English, 1795 – 1943 · 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Ecuelle and lid

Ecuelle and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripod Bowl with Cover

Tripod Bowl with Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Écuelle, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Écuelle

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with cover (écuelle), by Emanuel Drentwett

Bowl with cover (écuelle)

Emanuel Drentwett · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand

Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl with cover, by Meissen Manufactory

Sugar bowl with cover

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with cover (Écuelle), by Nicolas II Fauveau the Elder

Bowl with cover (Écuelle)

Nicolas II Fauveau the Elder · first quarter 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Broth bowl with cover (écuelle), by Gabriel Tillet

Broth bowl with cover (écuelle)

Gabriel Tillet · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
Ceremonial punch bowl with cover

Ceremonial punch bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1705

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. 17510 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. 285392 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 17:20 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.