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 floral sprays” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:14 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 floral sprays

Bowl with floral sprays

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Commode Chair, by Noël J Baudin, French, 1719 - 1784

Commode Chair

Noël J Baudin, French, 1719 - 1784 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with floral sprays

Bowl with floral sprays

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Écuelle, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Écuelle

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with floral sprays

Bowl with floral sprays

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Sugar Bowl

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobed bowl with floral sprays

Lobed bowl with floral sprays

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory)

Bowl

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1679–1691

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with boys amid floral sprays

Bowl with boys amid floral sprays

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl

Design for a Painted Porcelain Salad Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowls

Bowls

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup on a Stand with Flower Décor

Cup on a Stand with Flower Décor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

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

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Nathaniel Seymour

Untitled

Nathaniel Seymour · ca. 1790–1820

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with floral medallions

Bowl with floral medallions

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

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. 302 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. 273796 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-30 08:14 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.