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 Scalloped Rim” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:43 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 Scalloped Rim

Dish with Scalloped Rim

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

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

"Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foliated dish with floral scrolls

Foliated dish with floral scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Pedestaled dish with scalloped rim

Pedestaled dish with scalloped rim

Artist not stated in the record · 13th 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 with Scalloped Rim and Radial Pattern

Dish with Scalloped Rim and Radial Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

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

Dish

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1722–26

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with lobed rim

Dish with lobed rim

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Pattern of Flowering Plants

Dish with Pattern of Flowering Plants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Dish with lid and stand

Dish with lid and stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Oval Storage Basket

Large Oval Storage Basket

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

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

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
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with dragon

Dish with dragon

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

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1801–50

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. 563 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. 261400 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 20:43 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.