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. 12 shown for “Bowl with Foliate Rim” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:11 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Oval Cake Basket, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Pierced Oval Cake Basket

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Bowl

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon with Bell-Shaped Bowl, by J. M. van Kempen and Sons, founded 1835

Spoon with Bell-Shaped Bowl

J. M. van Kempen and Sons, founded 1835 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box, by Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box

Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular Sifiting Spoon with Curved Handle

Rectangular Sifiting Spoon with Curved Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salad Bowl, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Salad Bowl

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles X "Roi de France"

Charles X "Roi de France"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1829

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 278867 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-01 22:11 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.