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. 12 shown for “Ceramic Bowl Inscribed with "'Izz" ("Glory")” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:12 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Advertisement for "England's Glory Matches, S.J. Moreland & Sons", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "England's Glory Matches, S.J. Moreland & Sons"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine Greeting

Valentine Greeting

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging Wall Stoup with Angel

Hanging Wall Stoup with Angel

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon, by William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon

William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kyoto ware tea bowl inscribed with poem about Sumiyoshi Shrine

Kyoto ware tea bowl inscribed with poem about Sumiyoshi Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl with design of mountain retreat, by Ogata Ihachi (Kyoto Kenzan II) (active 1720-1760)

Tea bowl with design of mountain retreat

Ogata Ihachi (Kyoto Kenzan II) (active 1720-1760) · mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black Raku ware tea bowl named Minogame (Mossy-tailed tortoise), by Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Black Raku ware tea bowl named Minogame (Mossy-tailed tortoise)

Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) · 1605-1637

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Hot Water Spout

Design for a Hot Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 300194 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 06:12 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.