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. 19 shown for “Jar decorated with auspicious characters amid plants” — 54 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:22 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.
Jar decorated with auspicious characters amid plants

Jar decorated with auspicious characters amid plants

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tray, from a Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Jar

Large Jar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 681 AH/1282–83 CE

Public domainThe Met
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Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century–first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
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Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman's Overrobe (Uchikake) with Books and Mandarin Orange Branches

Woman's Overrobe (Uchikake) with Books and Mandarin Orange Branches

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Medallion Decoration, by George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910

Medallion Decoration

George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910 · 1885–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Tea-ceremony water jar in style of Kyoto ware

Tea-ceremony water jar in style of Kyoto ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Matchsafe Hand Holding Cigar Amid Smoke and Man Blowing Smoke

Matchsafe Hand Holding Cigar Amid Smoke and Man Blowing Smoke

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Brownies" Characters, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

"Brownies" Characters

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vinaigrette

Vinaigrette

Artist not stated in the record · 1802–03

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4183442 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 02:22 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.