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 oval bowl” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 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
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 oval bowl

Glass oval bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece), by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

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
salt

salt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux), by Martin Carlin

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by New England Glass Company

Bowl

New England Glass Company · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–10

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

Bowl

Venezia-Murano Company · ca. 1875–78

Public domainThe Met
Footed Bowl

Footed Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–30

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. 2480 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 107542 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 10:47 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.