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 “Brush pot” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 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.
Brush

Brush

Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Brush pot

Brush pot

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush pot with Daoist paradise

Brush pot with Daoist paradise

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling, by François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866

Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling

François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Pot with Scene of Washing an Elephant

Brush Pot with Scene of Washing an Elephant

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ranunculus glaberrimus var. ellipticus (Greene) Greene

Ranunculus glaberrimus var. ellipticus (Greene) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Pot with King Wen and the Scholar Jiang Taigong

Brush Pot with King Wen and the Scholar Jiang Taigong

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Claytonia lanceolata Pursh

Claytonia lanceolata Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush pot

Brush pot

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Lithophragma glabrum Nutt.

Lithophragma glabrum Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Pot

Brush Pot

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Pot

Brush Pot

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for ink stand, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for ink stand

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush pot

Brush pot

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Confiture en Pot (Potted Jam) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Confiture en Pot (Potted Jam) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush pot

Brush pot

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mustard Pot, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for a Mustard Pot

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush pot

Brush pot

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Woodland Camp, by James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913

Woodland Camp

James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush pot

Brush pot

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stylized geometric floral design for printed textile, by Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818

Stylized geometric floral design for printed textile

Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818 · 1800–1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Pot

Brush Pot

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Sketches of Facades, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design: Sketches of Facades

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

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. 65 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. 25430 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 11:20 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.