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. 12 shown for “Dish with garden scene” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene, by John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene

John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Herculaneum Pottery, English, 1796 – 1841

Dish

Herculaneum Pottery, English, 1796 – 1841 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Dish

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand for a Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Stand for a Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
PLATS OVALE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS OVALE

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
PLATS ROND, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS ROND

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Garden Scene with a Fountain, Part V, Plate 8, "Architettura e Prospettive," Augsburg, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756

Stage Design: Garden Scene with a Fountain, Part V, Plate 8, "Architettura e Prospettive," Augsburg

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · 1740–44

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 292966 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 05:46 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.