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 “Glass Bowl in Millefiori Technique” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:25 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 Bowl in Millefiori Technique

Glass Bowl in Millefiori Technique

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

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 from a bowl

Fragment from a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Millefiori bowl, by Vincenzo Moretti

Millefiori bowl

Vincenzo Moretti · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed millefiori bowl, by Vincenzo Moretti

Footed millefiori bowl

Vincenzo Moretti · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Venezia-Murano Company

Bowl

Venezia-Murano Company · ca. 1875–78

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic bowl

Glass mosaic bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay, millefiori

Inlay, millefiori

Artist not stated in the record · 30 BCE–364 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass mosaic bowl

Glass mosaic bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

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, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified

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
Mosaic Glass Patella Cup, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Mosaic Glass Patella Cup

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-2nd century AD

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
Flask, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Flask

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st-4th century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Fernand Thesmar

Bowl

Fernand Thesmar · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Amphora, by Unidentified (Roman)

Amphora

Unidentified (Roman)

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. 258 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. 7469378 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 10:25 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.