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. 21 shown for “Dish with Rock, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, and Fungus” — 49 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:33 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 Rock, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, and Fungus

Dish with Rock, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, and Fungus

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

Public domainThe Met
Flowers and Rhombuses

Flowers and Rhombuses

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of pigment tablets decorated with peony, rock, and magic fungus

Set of pigment tablets decorated with peony, rock, and magic fungus

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish and cover, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish and cover

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of pigment tablets decorated with peony, rock, and magic fungus

Set of pigment tablets decorated with peony, rock, and magic fungus

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish and cover, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish and cover

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular textile with two phoenixes

Circular textile with two phoenixes

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

Public domainThe Met
Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank badge with two phoenixes

Rank badge with two phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree

Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree

Artist not stated in the record · 16th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plateau

Plateau

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, etc

Flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, etc

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers, by Liang Yuwei

Flowers

Liang Yuwei · Undated

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto, by Studio of Kano Sadanobu

Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto

Studio of Kano Sadanobu · early 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Knife, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Knife

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1785968 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-10 03:33 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.