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. 23 shown for “Rim fragment of a bowl or cup” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:27 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.
Cup

Cup

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

Public domainThe Met
Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup

Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box, by Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box

Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a cup rim

Fragment of a cup rim

Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE-100 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE or ca. 945–924 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Cup

Standing Cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Maya artist(s)

Bowl

Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and saucer

Cup and saucer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1810

Public domainThe Met
Cup

Cup

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer (One of a Pair)

Tea Bowl and Saucer (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer (One of a Pair)

Tea Bowl and Saucer (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
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. 4959 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3891209 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:27 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.