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 “Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:03 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.
Dish with Floral Design

Dish with Floral Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands

Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Floral Designs

Dish with Floral Designs

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Dish with Foliate Rim in Imitation of Chinese Porcelain

Footed Dish with Foliate Rim in Imitation of Chinese Porcelain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design

Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Urn (One of a Pair), by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Urn (One of a Pair)

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Flying Cranes

Bottle with Flying Cranes

Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Urn (One of a Pair), by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Urn (One of a Pair)

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu

Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines and “double happiness” character

Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines and “double happiness” character

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Elevations d'alcoves avec portes de degagement, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elevations d'alcoves avec portes de degagement

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with floral scrolls

Vase with floral scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harpsichord converted to a piano, by Jean Goermans

Harpsichord converted to a piano

Jean Goermans · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Frame Design

Ornamental Frame Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Title Page

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

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. 62 matched · 24 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. 42496 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-08 02:03 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.