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 “Porphyry support for a water basin” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 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.
Porphyry support for a water basin

Porphyry support for a water basin

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Four Sketches for Fountains, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Four Sketches for Fountains

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of five-light candelabra, by Luigi Valadier

Pair of five-light candelabra

Luigi Valadier · 1774

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Design for a fountain, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a fountain

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain in Niche

Design for Fountain in Niche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain and basin, by Meissen Manufactory

Fountain and basin

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain

Project for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Marc Bazille

Basin

Marc Bazille · 1745–46

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain

Design for a Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Drawing

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Léopold Antoine

Basin

Léopold Antoine · 1727–29

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Motifs, Three Designs for Fountains, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Decorative Motifs, Three Designs for Fountains

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Abraham Portal

Basin

Abraham Portal · 1755/56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a fountain, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a fountain

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Fountain

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and basin, by Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay

Ewer and basin

Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay · 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
LA GRANDE PIECE D’EAU, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA GRANDE PIECE D’EAU

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer and basin, by Jean Fauche

Ewer and basin

Jean Fauche · 1739–42

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze

Design for a Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 1005 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2150968 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 07:45 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.