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 “Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 20:18 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.
Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes

Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 500–700, modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Surtout et Sucrier pour le Café, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Surtout et Sucrier pour le Café

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter with a Fish

Platter with a Fish

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

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Platter with Fish, by Victor Barbizet

Large Platter with Fish

Victor Barbizet · ca. 1855–1875

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen and a Platter, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Tureen and a Platter

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1740–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)

Fragmentary terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cameo fragmentary panel

Glass cameo fragmentary panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Ornament Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Platters

A Pair of Platters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

Artist not stated in the record · 300–350

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776

Platter

Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round dish with lobster and shells, by Thomas-Victor Sergent

Round dish with lobster and shells

Thomas-Victor Sergent · ca. 1870–80

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vertical Panel with Candelabrum Containing Pairs of Fish and Rosettes, by Heinrich Aldegrever

Vertical Panel with Candelabrum Containing Pairs of Fish and Rosettes

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1552

Public domainThe Met
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Platter

Design for a Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

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. 49 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. 1638574 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-05 20:18 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.