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 beaker with facet-cut decoration” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:11 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 beaker with facet-cut decoration

Glass beaker with facet-cut decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

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
Beaker, by Harrachsche Hütte

Beaker

Harrachsche Hütte · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Glass

Sweetmeat Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Meissen Manufactory

Beaker

Meissen Manufactory · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
beaker

beaker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Vienna

Beaker

Vienna · ca. 1725–28

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Anton Kothgasser

Beaker

Anton Kothgasser · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Mug

Mug

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Mug

Mug

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center table, by Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia

Center table

Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

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

Glass "Claw" Beaker

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

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker (Ranftbecher), by Anton Kothgasser

Beaker (Ranftbecher)

Anton Kothgasser · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Antoine Plot

Beaker

Antoine Plot · 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat glass

Sweetmeat glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Stud and buttons

Stud and buttons

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 164 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. 521 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 11:11 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.