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 with Pomegranates” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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 Pomegranates

Dish with Pomegranates

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

Public domainThe Met
A blue glass dish filled with fruit

A blue glass dish filled with fruit

Artist not stated in the record · likely 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Still Life with Fruit, by Severin Roesen, born Cologne, Germany 1815-died after 1872

Still Life with Fruit

Severin Roesen, born Cologne, Germany 1815-died after 1872 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth

Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Cavagnole

Cavagnole

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Textile

Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Absalmon Day

Dish

Absalmon Day · ca. 1794–1800

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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. 3326 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 253089 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 05:16 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.