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. 16 shown for “Dish with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses” — 44 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:28 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 with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses

Dish with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–80

Public domainThe Met
Dish with lid, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish with lid

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Sailing-Ship Design

Dish with Sailing-Ship Design

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Old Cypress Trees, Cypress Point, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Study of Old Cypress Trees, Cypress Point

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · April 11, 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Iznik Ceramic Dish

Iznik Ceramic Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Triomphe de Priape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Triomphe de Priape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palampore

Palampore

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure with an Oxcart and a Cypress Tree, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure with an Oxcart and a Cypress Tree, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 9, 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for The Cypress Trees of Montezuma, Park of Chapultepec, Mexico, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Study for The Cypress Trees of Montezuma, Park of Chapultepec, Mexico

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf-Shaped Dessert Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Leaf-Shaped Dessert Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study, Old Cypress Tres, Cypress Point, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Study, Old Cypress Tres, Cypress Point

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · April 11, 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall - sample

Sidewall - sample

Artist not stated in the record · 1906–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl

Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1593421 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 2026-08-27 19:28 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.