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 Three Animals” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:53 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 Three Animals

Bowl with Three Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1300

Public domainThe Met
Standing Cup

Standing Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and cover

Bowl and cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1800

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork with Attachable Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork with Attachable Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Maya artist(s)

Bowl

Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for Candlesticks

Three Designs for Candlesticks

Artist not stated in the record · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1585

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with King David and Jonathan

Wine Glass with King David and Jonathan

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Slotted Spoon with Scalloped Edge

Slotted Spoon with Scalloped Edge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

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
Designs for Furniture and Ornament, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Designs for Furniture and Ornament

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl), by Polyteleia Painter

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece), by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with birds and animals

Beaker with birds and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–25

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. 2029 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. 1417752 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-07 04:53 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.