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. 16 shown for “Figure with Cup and Disk” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 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.
Figure with Cup and Disk

Figure with Cup and Disk

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Bending Nude Figure Holding Cup, by Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917

Study of Bending Nude Figure Holding Cup

Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Disk

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry fragment

Tapestry fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure

Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer

Cup and Saucer

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Monumental vase, by Pierre Philippe Thomire

Monumental vase

Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Public domainThe Met
Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Disk

Disk

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Karttikeya, the God of War

Karttikeya, the God of War

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated female figure, by Nayarit artist(s)

Seated female figure

Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Seated male figure, by Nayarit artist(s)

Seated male figure

Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental disk, by Chimú artist(s)

Ornamental disk

Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
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. 11734 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1534437 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:21 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.