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 fish in water grasses” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:14 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 fish in water grasses

Dish with fish in water grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1768

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
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
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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
Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

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
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Water color; A woman selling roasted corn, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; A woman selling roasted corn

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with two fish

Bowl with two fish

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Le loup et l'agneau, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Le loup et l'agneau

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with pine trees

Dish with pine trees

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1884–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Dish with Spring Flowers and Grasses, by Ogata Kenzan

Square Dish with Spring Flowers and Grasses

Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Public domainThe Met
Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb.

Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Bolti Fish

Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Bolti Fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau, by Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914

Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau

Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914 · ca. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with fish

Plate with fish

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

Public domainThe Met
Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome

Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 1960

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. 513 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. 7464463 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 16:14 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.