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 auspicious emblems (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:39 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 auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1793–1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Salad Serving Spoon with Pentagonal Terminal, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Salad Serving Spoon with Pentagonal Terminal

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Pair of bowls

Pair of bowls

Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roller (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Roller (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Footed Bowl with Medici Family Arms, by Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy)

Fragment of a Footed Bowl with Medici Family Arms

Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · ca. 1513-1534

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roller (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Roller (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · model ca. 1740, mounts mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Birth Glass of the Repelius Family

Birth Glass of the Repelius Family

Artist not stated in the record · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

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
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Salvers, by Joseph Ward, English, active 1689 – 1734

A Pair of Salvers

Joseph Ward, English, active 1689 – 1734 · 1697

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar caster (one of a pair), by Nicolas Besnier

Sugar caster (one of a pair)

Nicolas Besnier · 1728–29

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

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. 336 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. 3992348 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-03 04:39 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.