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. 12 shown for “Goblet with cover” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:12 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Covered Goblet with Lilies of the Valley

Covered Goblet with Lilies of the Valley

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–1525

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Goblet with a Winged Ball on the Top, by Albrecht Altdorfer, German, ca. 1480–1538

Covered Goblet with a Winged Ball on the Top

Albrecht Altdorfer, German, ca. 1480–1538 · ca. 1520-1525

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Friendship Goblet of the van Orsoy Family

Covered Friendship Goblet of the van Orsoy Family

Artist not stated in the record · 1732–1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents

Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastic Goblet

Design for a Fantastic Goblet

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Goblet, from a series of eleven designs for goblets

Covered Goblet, from a series of eleven designs for goblets

Artist not stated in the record · 1530-1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263998 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 23:12 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.