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 “Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of running rabbit” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:16 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.
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of running rabbit

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of running rabbit

Artist not stated in the record · late 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
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a camel

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a camel

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Bowl Base with Saint Lawrence

Fragmentary Bowl Base with Saint Lawrence

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Woman

Fragmentary Bowl Base with the Portrait of a Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with with abstracted all-over design

Fragmentary base of a bowl with with abstracted all-over design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Depicting a Running Hare

Bowl Depicting a Running Hare

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 11th century

Public domainThe Met
China fruit/dessert bowls from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

China fruit/dessert bowls from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
China soup bowls from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

China soup bowls from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man in Prayer, by Rogier van der Weyden

Man in Prayer

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl

Fragmentary base of a bowl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Arabic Inscription

Bowl with Arabic Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 10th 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
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

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
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 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
China bread and butter plates/dessert plates from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

China bread and butter plates/dessert plates from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933

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. 326 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. 7484570 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 06:16 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.