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 “Covered dish” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Covered dish

Covered dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

Public domainThe Met
Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered dish, by Tucker and Hemphill

Covered dish

Tucker and Hemphill · 1831–37

Public domainThe Met
Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered dish, by Ralph Bagnall Beech

Covered dish

Ralph Bagnall Beech · 1851–57

Public domainThe Met
Covered Dish in the Form of a Red Cabbage or Tulip

Covered Dish in the Form of a Red Cabbage or Tulip

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Dish, by John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company

Covered Dish

John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company · ca. 1883

Public domainThe Met
Covered dish

Covered dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered sweetmeat dish, by Antonio Salviati

Covered sweetmeat dish

Antonio Salviati · probably late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 661–750

Public domainThe Met
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
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Covered Punch Bowl

Covered Punch Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–55

Public domainThe Met
Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered tureen, by Dihl et Guérhard

Covered tureen

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1800–1815

Public domainThe Met
Design for a tea-pot, verso: design for a covered dish and bowl, by Thomas Fletcher

Design for a tea-pot, verso: design for a covered dish and bowl

Thomas Fletcher · 1800–1866

Public domainThe Met
Covered Dish

Covered Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Covered Dish, by Challinor, Taylor and Company

Covered Dish

Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1870–90

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. 455 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 41744 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 2026-09-03 13:36 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.