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. 23 shown for “Design for a Platter” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 21:54 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.
Platter, by Bernard Palissy

Platter

Bernard Palissy · last quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Platter

Design for a Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Platter

Design for a Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Platter

Design for a Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–55

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Circular Platter, by Johann Nepomuk

Design for a Circular Platter

Johann Nepomuk · ca. 1810–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter, by Edme-Pierre Balzac

Platter

Edme-Pierre Balzac · 1771–72

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver Platter, by Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755

Design for a Silver Platter

Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a platter, by Erasmus Hornick

Design for a platter

Erasmus Hornick · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen and a Platter, by Unknown

Design for a Tureen and a Platter

Unknown · 1740–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Coffee Server with Cups on a Plate, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Coffee Server with Cups on a Plate

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Gantière &c, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Goblet Gantière &c

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Platters

A Pair of Platters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Platter (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

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. 22427 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2092765 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 21:54 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.