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 “Large Dish (Ōzara) with Peony, Butterfly, and Insects” — 48 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:03 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.
Large Dish (Ōzara) with Peony, Butterfly, and Insects

Large Dish (Ōzara) with Peony, Butterfly, and Insects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1624 –43

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Dish (Ōzara) with Lion and Peony

Large Dish (Ōzara) with Lion and Peony

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Woman's robe

Woman's robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with tree, flowers, and birds, by Vienna

Dish with tree, flowers, and birds

Vienna · ca. 1722–23

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Botanical plate with spray of lilies, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Botanical plate with spray of lilies

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, by Meissen Manufactory

Charger

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Palette-Shaped Butter Dish, by Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898

Palette-Shaped Butter Dish

Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, by Meissen Manufactory

Charger

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a peony and butterfly

Tapestry: a peony and butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase with Flowers, by Jacob Vosmaer

A Vase with Flowers

Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Public domainThe Met
Tureen and Stand, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tureen and Stand

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peonies and butterfly, by Traditionally attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century)

Peonies and butterfly

Traditionally attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird with Tulip, Carnation, Butterflies, and Insect

Bird with Tulip, Carnation, Butterflies, and Insect

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket], by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699

Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

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. 1859628 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 17:03 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.