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 Scroll” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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 Scroll

Dish with Peony Scroll

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

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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
Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

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

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

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

Public domainThe Met
Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Pickle Dish and Spear, by Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899

Pickle Dish and Spear

Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899 · 1871–1899

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

Tankard with Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941

Textile

Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Peony

Dish with Peony

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

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peony and Bamboo, by Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran

Peony and Bamboo

Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Dessert Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

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
Dish, ladle and tray, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish, ladle and tray

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lobed Dish with Ganymede, Jupiter, and Sphinxes

Lobed Dish with Ganymede, Jupiter, and Sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

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
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Dish (Ōzara) with Lion and Peony

Large Dish (Ōzara) with Lion and Peony

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Napkin

Napkin

Artist not stated in the record · 1680s

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. 231 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. 255502 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 11:45 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.