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 “Footed Beaker” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:39 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.
Glass footed beaker

Glass footed beaker

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–mid-2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Footed Beaker

Footed Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Glass Beaker

Footed Glass Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 375–425

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1375–1400

Public domainThe Met
beaker, footed

beaker, footed

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Beaker, by Geert Jacobs van Ootmarssen, Dutch

Beaker

Geert Jacobs van Ootmarssen, Dutch · 1678–1679

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Antoine Plot

Beaker

Antoine Plot · 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaker with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Beaker with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Catherine-Charlotte-Geneviève-Decomble Brissot (or Brisseau)

Beaker

Catherine-Charlotte-Geneviève-Decomble Brissot (or Brisseau) · 1778–80

Public domainThe Met
Beaker, by Isak Sauer, Swedish, 1718 - 1786

Beaker

Isak Sauer, Swedish, 1718 - 1786 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Beaker

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box, by Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box

Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Beaker

Footed Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Mug

Mug

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed beaker, by Johannes (Hans) Retsch , Sr.

Footed beaker

Johannes (Hans) Retsch , Sr. · first half 17th century

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. 110 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 15850 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 09:39 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.