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. 22 shown for “Fragment of a Luster Dish” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:06 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.
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of dish

Fragment of dish

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish (fragment)

Dish (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Coppa, by Giorgio Andreoli, Italian, b. 1465

Coppa

Giorgio Andreoli, Italian, b. 1465 · 1526

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Footed dish, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Footed dish

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl with bird design

Fragment of a bowl with bird design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Luster Dish

Fragment of a Luster Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deep dish

Deep dish

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a dish

Fragment of a dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Le loup et l'agneau, by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

Le loup et l'agneau

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with a bull, a greyhound, and a hare

Dish with a bull, a greyhound, and a hare

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with design of fantastic animal

Fragment with design of fantastic animal

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with the Christ child

Dish with the Christ child

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Moulded fragment

Moulded fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plateau

Plateau

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1420–1430

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. 699 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. 3863931 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:06 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.