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 dish with flowering plum and magpies” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:32 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 dish with flowering plum and magpies

Octagonal dish with flowering plum and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
PLATS OCTOGONE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS OCTOGONE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with flowers and birds

Dish with flowers and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish Cross, by Robert Hennell I, English, 1741 – 1811

Dish Cross

Robert Hennell I, English, 1741 – 1811 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Putti in Four Octagons and Two Circles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Putti in Four Octagons and Two Circles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
PLATS OCTOGONE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

PLATS OCTOGONE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, by Helen Searle, born Burlington, VT 1830-died Jacksonville, IL 1884

Still Life with Fruit and Champagne

Helen Searle, born Burlington, VT 1830-died Jacksonville, IL 1884 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Platter (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Platter (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Flowering Plum and Warbler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Salt Dish

Salt Dish

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon

Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon

Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Untitled, by Everhart Kuhn, n.d.

Untitled

Everhart Kuhn, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan-shaped dish, by Vienna

Fan-shaped dish

Vienna · ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Octagonal Plate

Design for an Octagonal Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Three Friends of Winter

Dish with Three Friends of Winter

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Gayet et Montgirod, 1760 – 1761

Textile

Gayet et Montgirod, 1760 – 1761 · 1760–61

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. 32 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. 1526600 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 2026-08-28 08:32 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.