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 “Punch pot with Bacchus” — 56 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 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.
Punch pot with Bacchus

Punch pot with Bacchus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Punch pot, by Longton Hall

Punch pot

Longton Hall · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Love and Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Punch pot

Punch pot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial punch bowl with cover

Ceremonial punch bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1705

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne

Design for a Tapestry: Bacchus and Ariadne

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber Pot

Chamber Pot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Public domainThe Met
Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber Pot

Chamber Pot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Public domainThe Met
The Young Bacchus with Two Companions

The Young Bacchus with Two Companions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Adrian Bancker

Candlestick

Adrian Bancker · 1735–50

Public domainThe Met
LE BASSIN DE BACCHUS, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE BASSIN DE BACCHUS

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1672–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Adrian Bancker

Candlestick

Adrian Bancker · 1735–50

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barrel

Barrel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Trophée à Bachus, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Trophée à Bachus

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1775–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Midnight Modern Conversation, by William Hogarth

A Midnight Modern Conversation

William Hogarth · 1733

Public domainThe Met
Four Statues in Niches: Music, Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture; Study of Bacchus and Mercury, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Statues in Niches: Music, Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture; Study of Bacchus and Mercury

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Midnight Modern Conversation, by William Hogarth

A Midnight Modern Conversation

William Hogarth · 1733

Public domainThe Met
Char de Bacchus., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Bacchus.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Midnight Modern Conversation, by William Hogarth

A Midnight Modern Conversation

William Hogarth · 1733

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Architectural Detail at the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 6, 1868

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 1 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. 260439 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 17:49 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.