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 “Dish with Peony” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:19 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 Peony

Dish with Peony

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

Public domainThe Met
Napkin

Napkin

Artist not stated in the record · 1735–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Peony Scroll

Dish with Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Flower Study, Peonies

Flower Study, Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

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

Dish with Peony Design

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

Public domainThe Met
Red Peonies, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Red Peonies

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 19th–20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Study of Pale Pink Peonies, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Pale Pink Peonies

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Peonies

Dish with Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Peonies, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Peonies

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Peonies

Dish with Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Peony Scroll

Bottle with Peony Scroll

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

Public domainThe Met
Peonies in the Wind with Kakemono Borders, by John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Peonies in the Wind with Kakemono Borders

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · ca. 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of Peonies, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Peonies

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Peonies and Ropes

Peonies and Ropes

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

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 · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Absalmon Day

Dish

Absalmon Day · ca. 1794–1800

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

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

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. 3396 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 253034 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 14:19 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.