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. 17 shown for “Meiping vase with peaches, pomegranades, and fingered citrons” — 45 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:41 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.
Meiping vase with peaches, pomegranades, and fingered citrons

Meiping vase with peaches, pomegranades, and fingered citrons

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Vase

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meiping vase with peach, pomegranade, and fingered citron

Meiping vase with peach, pomegranade, and fingered citron

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pink, brown, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Pink, brown

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meiping vase with peach, pomegranade, and fingered citron

Meiping vase with peach, pomegranade, and fingered citron

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and fingered citrons

Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and fingered citrons

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and fingered citrons

Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and fingered citrons

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern

Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall, by Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

Sidewall

Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen, by Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1519

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photographic postcard of WWI soldiers, by Unidentified

Photographic postcard of WWI soldiers

Unidentified · 1917-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, fruit motif

Bouquet holder, fruit motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, feather vase, enamel handle

Bouquet holder, feather vase, enamel handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, leaf & wheat motif

Bouquet holder, leaf & wheat motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1870

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1526808 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-07 23:41 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.