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 symbols” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:26 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 symbols

Bowl with auspicious symbols

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tray, from a Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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 Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with water buffalo

Boy with water buffalo

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase decorated with auspicious animals

Vase decorated with auspicious animals

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Six Immortal Poets, by Kajikawa School

Case (Inrō) with Design of Six Immortal Poets

Kajikawa School · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
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Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

Artist not stated in the record · 300–350

Public domainThe Met
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Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with dragon

Bowl with dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 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. 473 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 274288 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:26 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.