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 “Platter with a Fish” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 21:40 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.
Platter with a Fish

Platter with a Fish

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen and a Platter, by Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748

Design for a Tureen and a Platter

Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1740–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter, by Bernard Palissy

Platter

Bernard Palissy · last quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–55

Public domainThe Met
A Pair of Platters

A Pair of Platters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

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
Large Platter with Fish, by Victor Barbizet

Large Platter with Fish

Victor Barbizet · ca. 1855–1875

Public domainThe Met
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish, by William Merritt Chase

Fish

William Merritt Chase · by 1910

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
Smallsword with Scabbard, by Master GG

Smallsword with Scabbard

Master GG · hallmarked 1773–74

Public domainThe Met
L'Eau, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

L'Eau

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Platter

Design for a Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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

Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter, by Willets Manufacturing Company

Platter

Willets Manufacturing Company · 1883–85

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

Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter, by Union Porcelain Works

Platter

Union Porcelain Works · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Fruit Platter (One of a Pair), by Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1749 – 1760

Fruit Platter (One of a Pair)

Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1749 – 1760 · 1755–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter, by Union Porcelain Works

Platter

Union Porcelain Works · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

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. 1508 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1983386 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-05 21:40 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.