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 “Dish green glazed with floral medallion and foliate rim” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:21 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.
Dish green glazed with floral medallion and foliate rim

Dish green glazed with floral medallion and foliate rim

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

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Dish, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Sweetmeat Dish

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sidewall

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900

Sidewall

Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Frieze

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Dish with Foliate Rim in Imitation of Chinese Porcelain

Footed Dish with Foliate Rim in Imitation of Chinese Porcelain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900

Sidewall

Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Design

Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Designs

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90s

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Frieze

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Gingko Leaves

Dish with Gingko Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Potter Wall Paper Mills

Frieze

Potter Wall Paper Mills · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

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. 70 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. 1595822 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 05:21 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.