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. 12 shown for “Serpentine bowl with spout and handle” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:23 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Ladle With Spout and Dragonfly Terminal, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Ladle With Spout and Dragonfly Terminal

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle

Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffee Service, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Coffee Service

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Teapot, Hot Water Pitcher, Milk Pitcher and Sugar Bowl

Designs for Teapot, Hot Water Pitcher, Milk Pitcher and Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family, by S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family

S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Teapot

Design for a Teapot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls, by Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls

Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot (Théière), by Lille Porcelain Manufactory, French, established by ca. 1711

Teapot (Théière)

Lille Porcelain Manufactory, French, established by ca. 1711 · ca. 1785

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1540254 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-27 14:23 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.