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 “Porringer with cover or posset cup” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:23 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.
Porringer with cover or posset cup

Porringer with cover or posset cup

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with cover

Cup with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–60

Public domainThe Met
Covered Porringer, by Claude Laubreaux

Covered Porringer

Claude Laubreaux · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with cover, by Hans van Amsterdam

Cup with cover

Hans van Amsterdam · 1533/34

Public domainThe Met
Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l’orfeverie

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turned cup and cover with inserts and original case, by Unidentified

Turned cup and cover with inserts and original case

Unidentified · ca. 1620–50

Public domainThe Met
Double-Handled Porringer (Écuelle), by Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757

Double-Handled Porringer (Écuelle)

Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757 · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot (part of a service), by Meissen Manufactory

Coffeepot (part of a service)

Meissen Manufactory · 1723–26

Public domainThe Met
ECUELLE ET GOBELETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

ECUELLE ET GOBELETS

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with cover

Cup with cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tazza with cover

Tazza with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–55, with later restorations

Public domainThe Met
Posset Pot, by De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774

Posset Pot

De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · 1705–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta cup

Terracotta cup

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porringer

Porringer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th or early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing cup with cover

Standing cup with cover

Artist not stated in the record · cup: mid-17th century, finial: 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Porringer

Porringer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th or early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tazza cover

Tazza cover

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Porringer

Porringer

Artist not stated in the record · 1770 - 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing cup with cover, by Lorenz Zick

Standing cup with cover

Lorenz Zick · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Porringer

Porringer

Artist not stated in the record · 1810 - ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing cup with cover, by Lorenz Zick

Standing cup with cover

Lorenz Zick · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Cup

Covered Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1748

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. 202 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. 459864 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-06 03:23 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.