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. 17 shown for “Covered Bowl or Box” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:36 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.
Box, by Wilhelm Krüger

Box

Wilhelm Krüger · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Bowl or Box

Covered Bowl or Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl and Cover, by James Goodwin, British, active London (entered 1706)

Sugar Bowl and Cover

James Goodwin, British, active London (entered 1706) · 1726–1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku) with Box, by Neo Masanobu 根尾正信

Armor (Gusoku) with Box

Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Sugar Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

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
Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Maya artist(s)

Bowl

Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl, by Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858

Sugar Bowl

Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Ewer of Zenobius

Ewer of Zenobius

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Penthesilea Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments, by Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops

Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments

Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops · 1870s–1880s

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta covered bowl

Terracotta covered bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

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. 930 matched · 24 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. 392898 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 11:36 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.