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. 19 shown for “Marble bowl with four flanges” — 48 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:43 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.
Marble bowl with four flanges

Marble bowl with four flanges

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2700–2200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Bell-Shaped Bowl, by J. M. van Kempen and Sons, founded 1835

Spoon with Bell-Shaped Bowl

J. M. van Kempen and Sons, founded 1835 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl

Glass bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

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

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Rectangular Sifiting Spoon with Curved Handle

Rectangular Sifiting Spoon with Curved Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass serving dish

Glass serving dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy Spoon

Tea Caddy Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Maya artist(s)

Vessel with mythological scene

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Indicator, Temperature, Model 124B101, by Lewis Engineering Co.

Indicator, Temperature, Model 124B101

Lewis Engineering Co.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet

Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Tea Strainer

Tea Strainer

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez

The Massacre of the Innocents

François Joseph Navez · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Four Candlesticks, by Benedikt Ranninger, Austrian

Four Candlesticks

Benedikt Ranninger, Austrian · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Rodent, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Rodent

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Slug, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Slug

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Fork with Bird on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Fork with Bird on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 282471 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 2026-08-29 05:43 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.