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 rocks, flowers, and birds” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:23 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 rocks, flowers, and birds

Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 1710–30

Public domainThe Met
Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish, by De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774

Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish

De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · ca. 1705–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds

Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish, by De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774

Heart-Shaped Sweetmeat Dish

De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · ca. 1705–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese figure with bird, by Meissen Manufactory

Chinese figure with bird

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727, mounts and flowers ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Heart-Shaped Dessert Dish, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Heart-Shaped Dessert Dish

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

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
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Platter with Birds (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Basin

Basin

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
PLATS OCTOGONE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS OCTOGONE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with flowers and birds

Dish with flowers and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Platter with Birds (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall light (one of a pair)

Wall light (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Overton, by George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951

Overton

George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951 · ca. 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish and cover, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish and cover

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

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. 3223 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2144087 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 14:23 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.