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 “Bronze phiale (libation bowl) with rosette on the bottom” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 15:05 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.
Bronze phiale (libation bowl) with rosette on the bottom

Bronze phiale (libation bowl) with rosette on the bottom

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

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

Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Dentelle"

"Dentelle"

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

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
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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

Glass phiale (libation bowl)

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

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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

Bronze phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · ca. 1890

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

Bronze phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick with a Clock, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick with a Clock

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · late 18th 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
Macaroni Server with Gold Plated Bowl

Macaroni Server with Gold Plated Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver phiale (libation bowl) with gilding

Silver phiale (libation bowl) with gilding

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Tureen, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

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

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th or early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

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

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

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

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–35

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

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

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. 100 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. 1875042 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 2026-09-05 15:05 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.