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. 20 shown for “Circular Basket with Conical Lid” — 55 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:26 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.
Circular Basket with Conical Lid

Circular Basket with Conical Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Basket, lid and dish, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Basket, lid and dish

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Basket with Lid

Circular Basket with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

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

Teapot

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket and toilet articles

Basket and toilet articles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Teakettle-on-Stand, by W.A.S. Benson Ltd., England, 1880 - 1920

Teakettle-on-Stand

W.A.S. Benson Ltd., England, 1880 - 1920 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical Coil Basket and Lid

Cylindrical Coil Basket and Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2124–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Design for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Lided Basket on a Wood Stand

Circular Lided Basket on a Wood Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass vessel in the shape of a basket

Glass vessel in the shape of a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Design for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boxed Valentine's Day Card, by Anonymous, British, 19th century

Boxed Valentine's Day Card

Anonymous, British, 19th century · 1840–99

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Lid

Fragment of Lid

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Double Cup

Double Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre

Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 1 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. 274168 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:26 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.