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 “Lozenge-shaped dish with garden scene” — 62 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:45 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Lozenge-shaped dish with garden scene

Lozenge-shaped dish with garden scene

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene, by John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene

John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lozenge-Shaped Dish with Garden Scene

Lozenge-Shaped Dish with Garden Scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Dish and cover

Dish and cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon

Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1486–88

Public domainThe Met
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by William Ridgway, Son & Co.

Dish

William Ridgway, Son & Co. · ca. 1844–ca. 1846

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon

Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon

Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Watch and chatelaine

Watch and chatelaine

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with garden scene

Dish with garden scene

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with woman and rabbit in a garden

Dish with woman and rabbit in a garden

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Chimneypiece Designs, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Two Chimneypiece Designs

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with scene of a family

Dish with scene of a family

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Pomona, by Bernard Palissy

Dish with Pomona

Bernard Palissy · late 16th or early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Nippori, Temple Gardens (Nippori, jiin no rinsen) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Nippori, Temple Gardens (Nippori, jiin no rinsen) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Brioche, by Edouard Manet

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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. 64 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 02:45 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.