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 bosses and petals” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:39 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 bosses and petals

Bowl with bosses and petals

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
spoon, by "PB"

spoon

"PB" · 1804

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
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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
Decorative door boss and nail

Decorative door boss and nail

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with pomegranates, lotus scrolls, and chrysanthemum petals

Bowl with pomegranates, lotus scrolls, and chrysanthemum petals

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Flower Bowl Decoration, by Hans Henriksson Wettersten, active, 1682 - 1726

Spoon with Flower Bowl Decoration

Hans Henriksson Wettersten, active, 1682 - 1726 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh Bowl

Marsh Bowl

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

Bronze bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver sugar tongs

George III sterling silver sugar tongs

Artist not stated in the record · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta dinos (bowl)

Terracotta dinos (bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–early 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh Bowl

Marsh Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with fish and lotuses

Bowl with fish and lotuses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Bronze phiale (libation bowl)

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

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl (Sucrier), by Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1740 - 1756

Sugar Bowl (Sucrier)

Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1740 - 1756 · 1754

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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1534270 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 2026-08-28 09:39 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.