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 “Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle” — 40 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:03 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.

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes, by The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes

The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915 · 1900–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Gold Plated Honeybee on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Gold Plated Honeybee on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Macaroni Server with Gold Plated Bowl

Macaroni Server with Gold Plated Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon, by William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon

William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kylix, by Heidelberg Painter, Greek, active 575 - 555 BC

Kylix

Heidelberg Painter, Greek, active 575 - 555 BC · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 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. 300399 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 01:03 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.