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

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:42 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 splashed spots

Bowl with splashed spots

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

Public domainThe Met
Coffee Service, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Coffee Service

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Green, Yellow, and Brown Splashed Decoration

Bowl with Green, Yellow, and Brown Splashed Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Two chalices, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Two chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Panthers using Human Excrement, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Hunting Panthers using Human Excrement

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by George E. Ohr

Bowl

George E. Ohr · ca. 1897–1900

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by George E. Ohr

Bowl

George E. Ohr · ca. 1897–1900

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by George E. Ohr

Bowl

George E. Ohr · ca. 1898–1910

Public domainThe Met
Yellow woven pillbox with veil, by Clover Lane

Yellow woven pillbox with veil

Clover Lane · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by George E. Ohr

Bowl

George E. Ohr · ca. 1898–1910

Public domainThe Met
Design for Side Serving Table displaying a Vase of China, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Side Serving Table displaying a Vase of China

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by George E. Ohr

Bowl

George E. Ohr · ca. 1898–1910

Public domainThe Met
Tenmoku style tea bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Tenmoku style tea bowl, Ryumonji kilns

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Ohi ware tea bowl, by Ohi Doan (died 1839)

Ohi ware tea bowl

Ohi Doan (died 1839) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Green Splashes

Bowl with Green Splashes

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Ōhi ware shallow tea bowl with incised design, by Ohi Kambei (died 1802)

Ōhi ware shallow tea bowl with incised design

Ohi Kambei (died 1802) · second half of 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Green Splashes and Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Bowl with Green Splashes and Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

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

Public domainThe Met
Bizen ware tea bowl

Bizen ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Marble-top wash stand from the home of Robert Smalls, by Unidentified

Marble-top wash stand from the home of Robert Smalls

Unidentified · 1870-1875

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. 127 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. 272666 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 02:42 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.