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 “Miniature vase with floral medallions” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:22 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Alfred Peats Company

Frieze

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature vase with floral medallions

Miniature vase with floral medallions

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Jar with Cover

Miniature Jar with Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
OEUVRES CONTENANT UN RECUEIL DE TROPHÉES, ATTRIBUTS, CARTOUCHES, VASES, FLEURS ORNEMENS Et plusieurs Desseins agréables pour broder des Fauteuils; Composés et dessinés par Ranson, et graves par Berthaut et Voysard, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

OEUVRES CONTENANT UN RECUEIL DE TROPHÉES, ATTRIBUTS, CARTOUCHES, VASES, FLEURS ORNEMENS Et plusieurs Desseins agréables pour broder des Fauteuils; Composés et dessinés par Ranson, et graves par Berthaut et Voysard

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Elements

Jewelry Elements

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase decorated with floral medallions

Vase decorated with floral medallions

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover (Rumal)

Cover (Rumal)

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

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

Bottle with Flying Cranes

Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, by Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes, by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes

Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

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. 43 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. 259407 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-30 13:22 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.