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. 18 shown for “Cup with Running Ibexes” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 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 Running Ibexes

Cup with Running Ibexes

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cherry Wood Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Cherry Wood Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · September 24, 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and stand (présentoir), by Martin Gizl

Ewer and stand (présentoir)

Martin Gizl · 1758

Public domainThe Met
China tea cups from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

China tea cups from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3980–3865 BC

Public domainThe Met
Design for Six-Legged Rectangular Dining Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Six-Legged Rectangular Dining Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3980–3865 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Six-Legged Round Dining Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Six-Legged Round Dining Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Inella ibex

Inella ibex

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cup

Glass cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cup decorated with ibexes

Cup decorated with ibexes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher decorated with ibexes

Pitcher decorated with ibexes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta one-handled skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Terracotta one-handled skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century–early 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup with a Poem on Wine, by Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi

Cup with a Poem on Wine

Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi · second half 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
One of pair of cups

One of pair of cups

Artist not stated in the record

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. 132 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. 271906 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:09 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.