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 lobed rim” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:51 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 lobed rim

Dish with lobed rim

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Dishes

A Pair of Dishes

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1722–26

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Dish with Figures on Horseback

Dish with Figures on Horseback

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

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

Public domainThe Met
Tray for a Covered Dish, by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Tray for a Covered Dish

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Negoro Lobed Tray (Rinka-bon)

Large Negoro Lobed Tray (Rinka-bon)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lobed Dish with Ganymede, Jupiter, and Sphinxes

Lobed Dish with Ganymede, Jupiter, and Sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

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
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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
Dish, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with dragon

Dish with dragon

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

Dish with Scalloped Rim

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Designs

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

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
Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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
Blue-ground Dish with Floral and 'Cintamani' Designs

Blue-ground Dish with Floral and 'Cintamani' Designs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–75

Public domainThe Met
Fruit Dish

Fruit Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1853 - 1861

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. 581 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. 261395 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 22:51 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.