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 dragons and phoenixes” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:32 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 dragons and phoenixes

Dish with dragons and phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Dish, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Sweetmeat Dish

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Panel with dragons, pearls, phoenixes, and floral patterns

Panel with dragons, pearls, phoenixes, and floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 1573-1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Dragon and Phoenix

Dish with Dragon and Phoenix

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Phoenixes and Dragons

Dish with Phoenixes and Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Achievement Designs, by Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719

Heraldic Achievement Designs

Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

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
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Phoenixes

Dish with Phoenixes

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chocolate cup and saucer with dragons and phoenixes, by Meissen Manufactory

Chocolate cup and saucer with dragons and phoenixes

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1739

Public domainThe Met
Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double vase with dragons and phoenixes

Double vase with dragons and phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup with dragon handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with Phoenixes

Plate with Phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Perithemis intensa

Perithemis intensa

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with dragons, by Bow Porcelain Factory

Dish with dragons

Bow Porcelain Factory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Perithemis intensa

Perithemis intensa

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Image of Phoenix

Tile with Image of Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Orthemis ferruginea

Orthemis ferruginea

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Dragons and Lotuses

Dish with Dragons and Lotuses

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Perithemis intensa

Perithemis intensa

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1946

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. 120 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. 1574704 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 22:32 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.