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 “High-Tin Bronze Bowl” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:19 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.
High-Tin Bronze Bowl, by Abu Nasr al-Naqqash

High-Tin Bronze Bowl

Abu Nasr al-Naqqash · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon

Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
High-Tin Bronze Bowl

High-Tin Bronze Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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
Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
spoon

spoon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon

Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Goblet

Goblet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver-gilt bowl

Silver-gilt bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 725–675 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Goblet

Goblet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze footbath with its stand

Bronze footbath with its stand

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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. 511 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 75 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-29 02:19 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.