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 “Covered Two-handled Bowl and Tray” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:13 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.

Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray, by French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes, 1738 – 1756

Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray

French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes, 1738 – 1756 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes, by The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes

The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915 · 1900–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffee Service, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Coffee Service

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl and Stand, from a Dessert Service (Sucrier et son Plateau), by Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789

Sugar Bowl and Stand, from a Dessert Service (Sucrier et son Plateau)

Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl and Stand, by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Sugar Bowl and Stand

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray for a Covered Dish, by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Tray for a Covered Dish

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Drawing

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Bowls

Sketches of Bowls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Dish (with Tray), by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Covered Dish (with Tray)

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell, by Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell

Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Set of Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Project for a Set of Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl, from a Breakfast Service (Sucrier; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Sugar Bowl, from a Breakfast Service (Sucrier; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

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. 1217 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-01 06:13 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.