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. 15 shown for “Libation cup with chi dragons” — 43 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:57 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.
Libation cup with chi dragons

Libation cup with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup with dragon handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval cup with chi dragons amid clouds

Oval cup with chi dragons amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Rhacomitrium anomodontoides

Rhacomitrium anomodontoides

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)

Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anax parthenope julius

Anax parthenope julius

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dicranoloma cylindrothecium (Mitt.) Sakurai

Dicranoloma cylindrothecium (Mitt.) Sakurai

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Victory Celebration, by William Pitts

Panel with Victory Celebration

William Pitts · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with Monogram, by Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century

Cup with Monogram

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacrifice of Noah, by Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647

Sacrifice of Noah

Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 308588 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-03 03:57 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.