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 in the shape of a peach” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:22 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 in the shape of a peach

Dish in the shape of a peach

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

Public domainThe Met
Wooden peach crate

Wooden peach crate

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th-mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
Butter Dish in the Shape of a Folded Napkin, by Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Co., Wallingford, Connecticut,1866 – 1898

Butter Dish in the Shape of a Folded Napkin

Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Co., Wallingford, Connecticut,1866 – 1898 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fan-Shaped Butter Dish, by Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Co., Wallingford, Connecticut,1866 – 1898

Fan-Shaped Butter Dish

Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Co., Wallingford, Connecticut,1866 – 1898 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

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
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1704

Public domainThe Met
Tureen and Stand, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tureen and Stand

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl

Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Footed dish

Footed dish

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by The Art Crafts Shop

Dish

The Art Crafts Shop · ca. 1904

Public domainThe Met
Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers, by Woodward & Lothrop, American, 1866 - 1995

Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers

Woodward & Lothrop, American, 1866 - 1995 · late 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Pale peach hat with black net and gold bead accents, by Unidentified

Pale peach hat with black net and gold bead accents

Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Six Shell-Shaped Dishes, by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Six Shell-Shaped Dishes

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish Cross, by Robert Hennell I, English, 1741 – 1811

Dish Cross

Robert Hennell I, English, 1741 – 1811 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa amatoria), by "In Castel Durante" Painter

Dish (coppa amatoria)

"In Castel Durante" Painter · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Dish in Shape of a Silver Sauceboat Stand (One of a Pair), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

Dish in Shape of a Silver Sauceboat Stand (One of a Pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1750–1752

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. 16327 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. 7484740 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 23:22 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.