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 “Pedestal dish with cover” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:08 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.
Pedestal dish with cover

Pedestal dish with cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece), by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal dish with cover

Pedestal dish with cover

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal dish with cover

Pedestal dish with cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal dish with cover

Pedestal dish with cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal dish with cover

Pedestal dish with cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Fruit Dish

Fruit Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1853 - 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 661–750

Public domainThe Met
Covered Dish (with Tray), by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Covered Dish (with Tray)

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish and cover, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish and cover

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekanis (covered dish), by Otchët Group

Terracotta lekanis (covered dish)

Otchët Group · ca. 400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish and cover, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish and cover

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal vessel, by Ulúa Valley artist(s)

Pedestal vessel

Ulúa Valley artist(s) · 800–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dish and cover, by George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951

Dish and cover

George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stuart Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Stuart Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (Charola), by Unknown

Dish (Charola)

Unknown · ca. 1820–40

Public domainThe Met
A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Kikko

Dish

Kikko · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Dish with lid, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Dish with lid

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

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. 480 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. 268350 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 01:08 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.