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 Heron in Reeds” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 22:00 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 Heron in Reeds

Bowl with Heron in Reeds

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Heron, by Tosa Mitsuoki

Heron

Tosa Mitsuoki · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Small Spoon with Fluted Ivory Handle, by Joseph Willmore

Small Spoon with Fluted Ivory Handle

Joseph Willmore · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Fish

Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1300

Public domainThe Met
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
White Heron Standing among Reeds, by Utagawa Hiroshige

White Heron Standing among Reeds

Utagawa Hiroshige · ca. 1835

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
White Heron, by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

White Heron

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Heron and Reeds

Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Heron and Reeds

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with zoomorphic motifs, by Paracas artist(s)

Bowl with zoomorphic motifs

Paracas artist(s) · 350–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Punch Ladle, by Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Punch Ladle

Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea Scoop

Tea Scoop

Artist not stated in the record · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rattle bowl with flying figure (Oculate Being), by Paracas artist(s)

Rattle bowl with flying figure (Oculate Being)

Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Herons among Reeds (obverse); Crow (reverse)

Inrō with Herons among Reeds (obverse); Crow (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy Spoon, by Edward C. Moore (1827-1891)

Tea Caddy Spoon

Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) · late 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. 74 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7465053 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-08 22:00 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.