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. 20 shown for “Glass Bell Beaker with White Trails” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:51 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 Bell Beaker with White Trails

Glass Bell Beaker with White Trails

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

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
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer

Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Harrachsche Hütte

Beaker

Harrachsche Hütte · ca. 1840

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
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch, by John Champion

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch

John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Glass Beaker, from a Buen Retiro Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set

Glass Beaker, from a Buen Retiro Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass Beaker with White Trails

Glass Beaker with White Trails

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass "Claw" Beaker

Glass "Claw" Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

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 · ca. 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock, by Julien Le Roy

Mantel clock

Julien Le Roy · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Globular Beaker with Trails

Globular Beaker with Trails

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass beaker

Glass beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

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. 398 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. 458271 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:51 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.