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 “Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds” — 48 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:49 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.
Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Flying Cranes

Bottle with Flying Cranes

Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Square Bottle, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Square Bottle

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · ca. 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maebyeong with lotus decoration

Maebyeong with lotus decoration

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maebyeong decorated with lotus

Maebyeong decorated with lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maebyeong with chrysanthemum decoration

Maebyeong with chrysanthemum decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Asian Female with Parasol, by Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915

Asian Female with Parasol

Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Designs

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge (buzi)

Rank badge (buzi)

Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Fragment

Kosode Fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Condiment Bottle

Condiment Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Condiment Bottle

Condiment Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figures in Lotus-Shaped Reserve

Figures in Lotus-Shaped Reserve

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scent bottle and lid

Scent bottle and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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. 1538050 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:49 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.