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 handles” — 64 records examined, 14 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 handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup with dragon handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

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 with dragon-head handle (pastiche)

Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

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
SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

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
Two-Handled Cup, by John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865

Two-Handled Cup

John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865 · 1855

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

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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
Jar with dragon handles

Jar with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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
Bowl with dragon handles

Bowl with dragon handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Cup and High-Backed Saucer with Handle, by Lefebvre (Rue Amelot No.64, Paris), French, active late 18th and early 19th century

Cup and High-Backed Saucer with Handle

Lefebvre (Rue Amelot No.64, Paris), French, active late 18th and early 19th century · late 18th century

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

Bowl with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th 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
Terracotta drinking cup with two handles

Terracotta drinking cup with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 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
Glass cup

Glass cup

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

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
Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon

Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

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 · wecond half 19th 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
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. 2284 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. 313521 matched · 40 examined · 13 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.