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 Fish” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 00:28 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 Central Fish Motif

Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau, by Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914

Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau

Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914 · ca. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Fish

Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1300

Public domainThe Met
Small Serving Fork with Tines Skewering Fish, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Small Serving Fork with Tines Skewering Fish

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Bowl with Fish

Altar Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Bowl with Fish

Two-Handled Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1430

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Fish Serving Fork, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Fish Serving Fork

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Fish Motifs

Bowl with Fish Motifs

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with fish and lotuses

Bowl with fish and lotuses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with two fish

Bowl with two fish

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku), by Saotome Ietada

Armor (Gusoku)

Saotome Ietada · 16th and 18th centuries

Public domainThe Met
Ladle With Spout and Dragonfly Terminal, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Ladle With Spout and Dragonfly Terminal

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass fragments of bowl decorated with mosaic fish

Glass fragments of bowl decorated with mosaic fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish, by William Merritt Chase

Fish

William Merritt Chase · by 1910

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

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. 7028 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. 427817 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-09 00:28 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.