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 “Oil bottle decorated with floral scrolls and lotus petals” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:34 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.
Oil bottle decorated with floral scrolls and lotus petals

Oil bottle decorated with floral scrolls and lotus petals

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Peony Scroll

Bottle with Peony Scroll

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

Public domainThe Met
Oil Lamp with Snake Handle

Oil Lamp with Snake Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Decorated with Scrolls

Scarab Decorated with Scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jan Jansz Van Der Laan

Vase

Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with Crucifom Lotus Flower Decoration

Scarab with Crucifom Lotus Flower Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lobed bowl with lotus petals, birds, animals, and floral scrolls

Lobed bowl with lotus petals, birds, animals, and floral scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th-early 8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle

Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Quail and Floral Decoration, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Quail and Floral Decoration

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oil lamp

Terracotta oil lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century A.D.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Long-Necked Bottle

Long-Necked Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lotus and waterbirds, by Unidentified artist

Lotus and waterbirds

Unidentified artist · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

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. 99 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. 1534989 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-10 10:34 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.