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. 18 shown for “Flower-shaped Negoro Tray (Kōban) with Three Feet” — 46 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:59 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.
Flower-shaped Negoro Tray (Kōban) with Three Feet

Flower-shaped Negoro Tray (Kōban) with Three Feet

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tray for a Covered Dish, by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Tray for a Covered Dish

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Negoro Lobed Tray (Rinka-bon)

Large Negoro Lobed Tray (Rinka-bon)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · 1853 - 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Negoro Tray (Ashitsuki-ban) with Three Feet

Round Negoro Tray (Ashitsuki-ban) with Three Feet

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Dish (with Tray), by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Covered Dish (with Tray)

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl and Stand, by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Sugar Bowl and Stand

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestand and holder (guéridon), by Martin Carlin

Candlestand and holder (guéridon)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1730–85

Public domainThe Met
Coffee Service, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Coffee Service

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of candlestands

Pair of candlestands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Écuelle and Stand, by Clignancourt Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1771 - ca. 1791

Écuelle and Stand

Clignancourt Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1771 - ca. 1791 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cruet Stand

Cruet Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
tray, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

tray

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1757–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Screens, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Screens

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Water Urn with Stand, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Water Urn with Stand

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Creamer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Creamer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 262255 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-03 04:59 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.