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. 22 shown for “Bowl with bosses and lotus pattern and demotic weight on rim” — 58 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:27 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 bosses and lotus pattern and demotic weight on rim

Bowl with bosses and lotus pattern and demotic weight on rim

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl

Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with acorn bosses at shoulder, lotus pattern beneath, and rosette on bottom, and with inscribed weight

Bowl with acorn bosses at shoulder, lotus pattern beneath, and rosette on bottom, and with inscribed weight

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with bosses and petals

Bowl with bosses and petals

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family, by S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family

S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh Bowl

Marsh Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lotus Bowl, by Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965

Lotus Bowl

Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1912–1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with female busts in medallions

Bowl with female busts in medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Variety, by Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920

Variety

Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920 · ca. 1879–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass phiale (libation bowl)

Glass phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with ritual procession, by Chimú artist(s)

Earflare with ritual procession

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Porringer

Porringer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th or early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with ritual procession, by Chimú artist(s)

Earflare with ritual procession

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and stand

Bowl and stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with Relief-cut Decoration

Beaker with Relief-cut Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Tankard, by Meissen Manufactory

Tankard

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 1986649 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:27 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.