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 “Faceted jar decorated with plum blossoms and bamboo” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:13 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.
Faceted jar decorated with plum blossoms and bamboo

Faceted jar decorated with plum blossoms and bamboo

Artist not stated in the record · end of the 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter, by Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century)

Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter

Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th century

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
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40s

Public domainThe Met
Birds, plum blossoms, bamboo and snow, by Traditionally attributed to Dai Wan (active early 12th century)

Birds, plum blossoms, bamboo and snow

Traditionally attributed to Dai Wan (active early 12th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Plum, by Kano Sansetsu

Old Plum

Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Asian Female with Parasol, by Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915

Asian Female with Parasol

Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1782

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
Figures in Lotus-Shaped Reserve

Figures in Lotus-Shaped Reserve

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Jar and cover, by Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851

Jar and cover

Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar decorated with plum blossoms

Jar decorated with plum blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover, by Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851

Jar and cover

Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Three Friends of Winter

Dish with Three Friends of Winter

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Lidded Jar

Design for Lidded Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with plum blossom and bamboo

Vase with plum blossom and bamboo

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Teapot

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1882

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. 27 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. 1531907 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-29 07:13 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.