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 “Saucer with floral patterns” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:23 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.
Saucer with floral patterns

Saucer with floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup and Saucer

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer with floral patterns

Cup and saucer with floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup and Saucer

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer, by Meissen Manufactory

Saucer

Meissen Manufactory · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup and Saucer

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Saucer, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with floral patterns

Incense burner with floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828

Cup and Saucer

Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner with floral patterns

Incense burner with floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup and Saucer

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1790–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer with floral pattern

Saucer with floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Saucer with floral pattern

Saucer with floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup (and Saucer) with Raised "Gotzkowsky" Pattern, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup (and Saucer) with Raised "Gotzkowsky" Pattern

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer with floral pattern

Saucer with floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796

Cup and Saucer

Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer with floral pattern

Saucer with floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Bristol China Manufactory, English, 1770 - 1781

Cup and Saucer

Bristol China Manufactory, English, 1770 - 1781 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saucer, by Meissen Manufactory

Saucer

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1715–19, decorated ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
China saucers from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

China saucers from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933

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. 1442 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. 256393 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 17:23 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.