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. 16 shown for “Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810” — 46 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:05 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.
Chessmen (32), by David Dunderdale & Co.

Chessmen (32)

David Dunderdale & Co. · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Cup and saucer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Cup and saucer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval basin with lizard, shells, and light blue background, by Georges Pull

Oval basin with lizard, shells, and light blue background

Georges Pull · 1865–1875

Public domainThe Met
Creamer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Creamer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug), by Meidias Painter

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sugarbowl, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Sugarbowl

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
BEAUTIES OF AMERICA./ PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL/ PHILADELPHIA./ J&W RIDGWAY., by John & William Ridgway

BEAUTIES OF AMERICA./ PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL/ PHILADELPHIA./ J&W RIDGWAY.

John & William Ridgway · ca. 1814–ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Cup and saucer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Cup and saucer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harvard / Hall. Mafs., by Job & John Jackson

Harvard / Hall. Mafs.

Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Cup and saucer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Cup and saucer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[University Hall, Harvard College], by Job & John Jackson

[University Hall, Harvard College]

Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Cup and saucer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Cup and saucer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Cup and saucer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Cup and saucer

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot and lid, by Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810

Teapot and lid

Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gnaphalium sylvaticum L.

Gnaphalium sylvaticum L.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 71624 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 08:05 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.