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 Star” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:54 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 Star

Cup with Star

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Chalice

Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

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

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box, by Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box

Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · cup 900–1100 CE; stem, base, and mounts ca. 1655–60

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry fragment

Tapestry fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver Standing Cup, by Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497

Design for a Silver Standing Cup

Wenzel von Olmütz, Moravian, active 1481 – 1497 · 1498

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup with Monogram, by Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century

Cup with Monogram

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1146–1138 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, by Tiffany & Co.

Cup

Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1893

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

Cup and Saucer

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup and Saucer

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup-Hilted Rapier, by Carlo Piccinino

Cup-Hilted Rapier

Carlo Piccinino · ca. 1650–75

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828

Cup and Saucer

Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828 · late 18th century

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. 18353 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 265661 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-07 04:54 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.