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. 24 shown for “Cup with Dragon-Shaped Handles” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 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.
Cup with Dragon-Shaped Handles

Cup with Dragon-Shaped Handles

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Wine glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Wine glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with dragon handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Bell Form Handle

Knife with Bell Form Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta drinking cup with two handles

Terracotta drinking cup with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass

Wine glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cup

Glass cup

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer

Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · wecond half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Jigger measuring cup from Lyons Hall

Jigger measuring cup from Lyons Hall

Artist not stated in the record · after 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Octagonal cup with dragon handles

Octagonal cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Custard Cup, by Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750

Custard Cup

Tournai Porcelain Factory, Belgian, established ca. 1750 · mid- 18th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with two handles and cover

Cup with two handles and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Standing Cup, by Georg Kraudi, German act. Nuremberg, 1643-1676

Standing Cup

Georg Kraudi, German act. Nuremberg, 1643-1676 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with dragon handles and saucer

Cup with dragon handles and saucer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1730–1740

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. 2153 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. 3278 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 2026-08-28 06:21 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.