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. 21 shown for “Dish, fish” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:17 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.
Dish, fish

Dish, fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Haddock, by Emil Carlsen, born Copenhagen, Denmark 1853-died New York City 1932

Haddock

Emil Carlsen, born Copenhagen, Denmark 1853-died New York City 1932 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish dish

Fish dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Palette-Shaped Butter Dish, by Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898

Palette-Shaped Butter Dish

Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1884–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with fish in water grasses

Dish with fish in water grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau, by Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914

Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau

Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914 · ca. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass flask in the form of a fish

Glass flask in the form of a fish

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Myself in the Mirror, by Oliver Chaffee, born Detroit, MI 1881-died Asheville, NC 1944

Myself in the Mirror

Oliver Chaffee, born Detroit, MI 1881-died Asheville, NC 1944 · ca. 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Bolti Fish

Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Bolti Fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fisher Children, by Charles W. Hawthorne, born Lodi, IL 1872-died Baltimore, MD 1930

Fisher Children

Charles W. Hawthorne, born Lodi, IL 1872-died Baltimore, MD 1930 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tell el-Yahudiya-ware fish vessel

Tell el-Yahudiya-ware fish vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
PLATS OVALE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS OVALE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with fish

Plate with fish

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

Public domainThe Met
PLATS ROND, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS ROND

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Bowl with Fish

Two-Handled Bowl with Fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1430

Public domainThe Met
PLATS ROND, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS ROND

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sea Bream (Tai) on Nabeshima Porcelain Dish, Sake Cup on Stand, and Painting of a Peony, by Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

Sea Bream (Tai) on Nabeshima Porcelain Dish, Sake Cup on Stand, and Painting of a Peony

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with two fish

Bowl with two fish

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Large Platter with Fish, by Victor Barbizet

Large Platter with Fish

Victor Barbizet · ca. 1855–1875

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. 121 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. 171546 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:17 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.