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 Deer and Phoenix Motifs” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:39 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 Deer and Phoenix Motifs

Bowl with Deer and Phoenix Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Ornament Design, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Rocaille Ornament Design

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Image of Phoenix

Tile with Image of Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso), by Unknown

Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso)

Unknown · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with deer

Bowl with deer

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1450

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

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

Public domainThe Met
Helmets, Swords, Bows and Arrows

Helmets, Swords, Bows and Arrows

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
"Niagara Falls"

"Niagara Falls"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Chelsea Keramic Art Works

Bowl

Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1877–85

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl, by Thomas Cains

Sugar bowl

Thomas Cains · 1812–27

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

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

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–1855

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

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
sugar bowl

sugar bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 581 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. 1544169 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 2026-08-27 12:39 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.