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 Three Friends of Winter” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 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 Three Friends of Winter

Dish with Three Friends of Winter

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Friends of Winter, by Helen Hyde, born Lima, NY 1868-died Pasadena, CA 1919

Three Friends of Winter

Helen Hyde, born Lima, NY 1868-died Pasadena, CA 1919 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with the Three Friends of Winter

Dish with the Three Friends of Winter

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

Public domainThe Met
Palette-Shaped Butter Dish, by Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898

Palette-Shaped Butter Dish

Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th 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
Dish, by Vienna

Dish

Vienna · ca. 1735–40

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
Dish, by Simon Edgell

Dish

Simon Edgell · 1713–42

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Public domainThe Met
A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Vienna

Dish

Vienna · 1722/23

Public domainThe Met
The Sun, the Hours, and the Seasons, for Palazzo Gessi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Sun, the Hours, and the Seasons, for Palazzo Gessi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by The Art Crafts Shop

Dish

The Art Crafts Shop · ca. 1904

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Birds in wintry trees, by Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Birds in wintry trees

Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1884–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90s

Public domainThe Met
The Compliments of the Season, by Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888

The Compliments of the Season

Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888 · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, by Charles Conway

Winter

Charles Conway · 1855

Public domainThe Met
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. 1804 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. 2898745 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 11:38 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.