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 “Luster Bowl with a Seated Figure and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:18 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.
Luster Bowl with a Seated Figure and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Luster Bowl with a Seated Figure and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Candelabra

Elevation of a Candelabra

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Bowl with a Ram, and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Luster Bowl with a Ram, and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century; modern fillings

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candelabrum, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candelabrum

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
The Festival of Pan

The Festival of Pan

Artist not stated in the record · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Inkstand

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Imitation Luster Bowl, inscribed "Blessing"

Imitation Luster Bowl, inscribed "Blessing"

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Star-Shaped Tile

Luster Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 608 AH/1211–12 CE

Public domainThe Met
Miniature: Seated Figure, by Unknown

Miniature: Seated Figure

Unknown · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with with abstracted all-over design

Fragmentary base of a bowl with with abstracted all-over design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a camel

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a camel

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch

Bowl depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words

Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for Candlesticks

Three Designs for Candlesticks

Artist not stated in the record · 1803

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. 118 matched · 24 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. 3182441 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 09:18 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.