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. 20 shown for “Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles” — 48 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:26 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.
Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles

Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases", by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with cloud-shaped handles

Hexagonal vase with cloud-shaped handles

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with alternating landscape and floral scenes

Vase with alternating landscape and floral scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with openwork pattern of flowers

Vase with openwork pattern of flowers

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with the moon goddess and attendants

Panel with the moon goddess and attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with lion, elephant, and qilin

Vase with lion, elephant, and qilin

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, hexagonal, ivory handle

Bouquet holder, hexagonal, ivory handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Jar, polychrome floral decoration, handle on cover in shape of squirrel.

Covered Jar, polychrome floral decoration, handle on cover in shape of squirrel.

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif, by Henry Jenkins and Sons

Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif

Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, incised arches

Bouquet holder, incised arches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 477531 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-08 02:26 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.