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 “Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 03:24 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.
Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern

Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Coffee Cup, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Coffee Cup

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design

Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns

Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with Star

Cup with Star

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a large bowl

Fragmentary base of a large bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Three Animals

Bowl with Three Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1300

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-color Luster Bowl with Stylized Tree

Three-color Luster Bowl with Stylized Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl

Fragmentary base of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks

Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks

Artist not stated in the record · second–third quarter 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ice Cream Spoon

Ice Cream Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon, by William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon

William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Monogram and Diamond Lattice Pattern, by Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Monogram and Diamond Lattice Pattern

Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872 · ca. 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet with Applied Decoration

Goblet with Applied Decoration

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and cover

Bowl and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faceted Basin, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Faceted Basin, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35

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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 275838 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 03:24 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.