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. 18 shown for “Round tray” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:20 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Round tray

Round tray

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Rice fanner basket

Rice fanner basket

Artist not stated in the record · before 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Tray

Round Tray

Artist not stated in the record · 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
The Vestal Tuccia Carries Water in Sieve; Two Studies after Polidoro da Caravaggio, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Vestal Tuccia Carries Water in Sieve; Two Studies after Polidoro da Caravaggio

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round tray on three feet

Round tray on three feet

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Surtout de Table (Centerpiece)

Design for a Surtout de Table (Centerpiece)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Negoro Tray (Kōban)

Round Negoro Tray (Kōban)

Artist not stated in the record · first half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Inkwell stand

Inkwell stand

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Charles Louis Boehme

Tray

Charles Louis Boehme · 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Salver

Salver

Artist not stated in the record · 1694 - 1695

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round tray with decoration of dragons and clouds

Round tray with decoration of dragons and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl and Stand, by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Sugar Bowl and Stand

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Round Negoro Tray (Ashitsuki-ban) with Three Feet

Round Negoro Tray (Ashitsuki-ban) with Three Feet

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta focolare (offering tray)

Terracotta focolare (offering tray)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tray Stand

Tray Stand

Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century (after 1342)

Public domainThe Met
Tray Stand

Tray Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Silver Gilt Tray

Silver Gilt Tray

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 15418 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:20 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.