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 “Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 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.
Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns

Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II)

Bowl

Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration

Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family, by S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family

S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Geometric Rosette

Bowl with Geometric Rosette

Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1150

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Glass

Sweetmeat Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tropics, by Willets Mfg. Co., active 1879 – ca. 1912

Tropics

Willets Mfg. Co., active 1879 – ca. 1912 · ca. 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Arita ware shallow individual serving bowl with scalloped rim

Arita ware shallow individual serving bowl with scalloped rim

Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Variety, by Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920

Variety

Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920 · ca. 1879–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

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

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware

Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler, by Maria Manula Lobe y Cantabrana

Sampler

Maria Manula Lobe y Cantabrana · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Korakuen ware tea bowl, by Yasuke Kyuraku II

Korakuen ware tea bowl

Yasuke Kyuraku II · circa 1830-40

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
Tea bowl, Karatsu or Tsushima ware

Tea bowl, Karatsu or Tsushima ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1625-1675

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. 430 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. 279353 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 05:00 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.