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 “Rectangular wine container (fangyi)” — 53 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 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.
Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds

Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Square lidded ritual wine container with lid (fangyi)

Square lidded ritual wine container with lid (fangyi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200-1050 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dancing figure

Dancing figure

Artist not stated in the record · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Rectangular wine container (fangyi)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Pair of Royal Earrings

A Pair of Royal Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Serving Table with Columnar Front Legs and Two Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Serving Table with Columnar Front Legs and Two Drawers

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular wine container (fanglei)

Rectangular wine container (fanglei)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Brass Rail and Brass Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Brass Rail and Brass Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Wine glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior with a Young Couple, by Pieter de Hooch

Interior with a Young Couple

Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Wine glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass

Wine glass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kalamkari Rumal

Kalamkari Rumal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Pynson Wilmot Bennitt's Room, Trinity College, Oxford, by Arthur Frederick Payne, English

Pynson Wilmot Bennitt's Room, Trinity College, Oxford

Arthur Frederick Payne, English · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page and Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Title Page and Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller, by Jacob Duck

A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller

Jacob Duck · ca. 1632–33

Public domainThe Met
Wine glass cooler-rinser or jam pot, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Wine glass cooler-rinser or jam pot

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1739–1749

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 85208 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 02:06 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.