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 “Flask vase with archaistic dragons and bats” — 44 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:38 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.
Flask vase with archaistic dragons and bats

Flask vase with archaistic dragons and bats

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

Public domainThe Met
Kang or furniture cover

Kang or furniture cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with archaistic patterns

Vase with archaistic patterns

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

Public domainThe Met
Clock Case Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Clock Case Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Dragons and Bats amid Clouds

Vase with Dragons and Bats amid Clouds

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase decorated with floral medallions

Vase decorated with floral medallions

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932

Vase

Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932 · 1879–1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorative Vase

Design for a Decorative Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Panel Designs, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Panel Designs

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panels

Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorative Vase

Design for a Decorative Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Vase Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1573580 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 11:38 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.