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 “Serving bowl, possibly Hagi ware” — 51 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:37 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.
Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Serving bowl, possibly Hagi ware

Serving bowl, possibly Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), by Vincennes Manufactory

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl, possibly Hagi ware

Tea bowl, possibly Hagi ware

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

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

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in hori-mishima style, possibly Hagi or Seto ware

Tea bowl in hori-mishima style, possibly Hagi or Seto ware

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl from the Rambouillet service (Jatte écuelle), by Sèvres Manufactory

Bowl from the Rambouillet service (Jatte écuelle)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl with indented rim, Hagi ware

Tea bowl with indented rim, Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware

Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th-mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl decorated with linked ibex horns

Bowl decorated with linked ibex horns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5300–4300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in the shape of a "Chinese flute," Hagi ware

Tea bowl in the shape of a "Chinese flute," Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with a Poem on Wine, by Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi

Cup with a Poem on Wine

Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi · second half 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl with notched foot, Hagi ware

Tea bowl with notched foot, Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with cover (Terrine épis de blé or épis en or et plateau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Tureen with cover (Terrine épis de blé or épis en or et plateau)

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1777–85

Public domainThe Met
Hagi ware tea bowl in the shape of a Korean tea bowl

Hagi ware tea bowl in the shape of a Korean tea bowl

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by Sèvres Manufactory

Stand

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1777–85

Public domainThe Met
Hagi ware tea bowl, copy of Ido type

Hagi ware tea bowl, copy of Ido type

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Villeroy

Plate

Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Hagi ware tea bowl

Hagi ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th-mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold Fragment with Musicians

Mold Fragment with Musicians

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

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware

Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serving bowl, Kyoto-related ware

Serving bowl, Kyoto-related ware

Artist not stated in the record · 18th-mid 19th century

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 84936 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 08:37 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.