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 “Octagonal cup with dragon handles” — 58 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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.
Octagonal cup with dragon handles

Octagonal cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Octagonal Cup and Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Octagonal Cup and Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1735–1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with dragon handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with dragon handles and saucer

Cup with dragon handles and saucer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup with dragon handles

Cup with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Octagonal cup with ring handle

Octagonal cup with ring handle

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Cups

Cups

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · wecond half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with Dragon-Shaped Handles

Cup with Dragon-Shaped Handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi

Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi

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

Public domainThe Met
Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)

Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of 8th century

Public domainThe Met
SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup modeled after a rhyton

Cup modeled after a rhyton

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot

Teapot

Artist not stated in the record · rock crystal ca. 1700, mounts ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Agate Handle

Knife with Agate Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Tea Set

Miniature Tea Set

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

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Agate Handle

Fork with Agate Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Meissen Manufactory

Coffeepot

Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Fluted Agate Handle

Knife with Fluted Agate Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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. 313906 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 03:29 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.