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 decorated with four busts in roundels” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:37 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 decorated with four busts in roundels

Glass bowl decorated with four busts in roundels

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl, from a Breakfast Service (Sucrier; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Sugar Bowl, from a Breakfast Service (Sucrier; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Milk Jug, from a Breakfast Service (Pot à Lait; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Milk Jug, from a Breakfast Service (Pot à Lait; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Pierced Oval Cake Basket, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Pierced Oval Cake Basket

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emperor Antoninus Pius, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Emperor Antoninus Pius

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · 1519–24

Public domainThe Met
Cup, from a Breakfast Service (Tasse; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup, from a Breakfast Service (Tasse; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl decorated with hunting scenes

Glass bowl decorated with hunting scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 4th–early 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cup, from a Breakfast Service (Tasse; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup, from a Breakfast Service (Tasse; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

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 decorated with geometric patterns

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration

Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration

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

Public domainThe Met
Obelisk

Obelisk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl with cut decoration

Glass bowl with cut decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Motifs, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Decorative Motifs

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1810

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. 140 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. 7465552 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-27 18:37 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.