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. 24 shown for “Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:06 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.
Bowl, by Abu Zayd al-Kashani

Bowl

Abu Zayd al-Kashani · dated 583 AH/1187 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design

Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Prince on Horseback

Bowl with Prince on Horseback

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a large bowl

Fragmentary base of a large bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern

Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl

Fragmentary base of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl

Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with a design of a torso

Fragment with a design of a torso

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl

Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a vessel with floral design

Fragment of a vessel with floral design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a small glazed animal

Fragment of a small glazed animal

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of a sphinx (fragment)

Head of a sphinx (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bahram Gur and Azada

Bahram Gur and Azada

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a molded vessel

Fragment of a molded vessel

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Stone-paste disk fragment of a rider

Stone-paste disk fragment of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Fragment decorated with a duck

Fragment decorated with a duck

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th 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. 2165 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3867355 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-07 08:06 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.