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 scene of Duke Ling of Jin” — 52 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:53 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 scene of Duke Ling of Jin

Dish with scene of Duke Ling of Jin

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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 depicting The Death of Saul, by Medici Porcelain Manufactory

Dish depicting The Death of Saul

Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–80

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life of Grapes and Peaches, by Panfilo Nuvolone

Still Life of Grapes and Peaches

Panfilo Nuvolone · ca. 1617

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Herculaneum Pottery, English, 1796 – 1841

Dish

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, by Sesson Shūkei

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Sesson Shūkei · 1550s

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Dish

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea Solario

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Public domainThe Met
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
Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger, by Aelbert Bouts

Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger

Aelbert Bouts · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
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
The Last Supper, by Bernard van Orley

The Last Supper

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1525–28

Public domainThe Met
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
Wangchuan Villa, by Wang Yuanqi

Wangchuan Villa

Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

Public domainThe Met
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
The Drunken SiIenus: Design for the "Tazza Farnese", by Annibale Carracci

The Drunken SiIenus: Design for the "Tazza Farnese"

Annibale Carracci · 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Interior of the Duke's Theater in Dorset Gardens, London, a Scene from Elkannah Settle's "The Empress of Morocco", by Richard Sawyer

Interior of the Duke's Theater in Dorset Gardens, London, a Scene from Elkannah Settle's "The Empress of Morocco"

Richard Sawyer · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Trees, Level Distance, by Guo Xi

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece of Soliman, Second State, by Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635

Frontispiece of Soliman, Second State

Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635 · 1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Stockbridge Cup, by Henry Hugh Armstead

The Stockbridge Cup

Henry Hugh Armstead · 1870

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2902630 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-05 07:53 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.