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. 21 shown for “Glass Bowl” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:30 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.
Apothecary Cabinet, by Nicolaus I Kolb

Apothecary Cabinet

Nicolaus I Kolb · 1617–18

Public domainThe Met
Bowls

Bowls

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th 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
Bowl, by Rensselaer Glassworks

Bowl

Rensselaer Glassworks · ca. 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku) with Box, by Neo Masanobu 根尾正信

Armor (Gusoku) with Box

Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ribbed bowl

Glass ribbed bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ribbed bowl

Glass ribbed bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic ribbed bowl

Glass mosaic ribbed bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Mosaic Glass Bowl, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Mosaic Glass Bowl

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-1st century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Dish, by Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868

Sweetmeat Dish

Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868 · 1826–1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–mid-1st 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. 1899 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. 100609 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:30 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.