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. 19 shown for “Silver Bucket” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:09 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.
Silver Bucket

Silver Bucket

Artist not stated in the record · 600s

Public domainThe Met
Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer of Zenobius

Ewer of Zenobius

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Tramp bucket

Tramp bucket

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Avar Treasure

The Avar Treasure

Artist not stated in the record · 600s (bucket)–700s

Public domainThe Met
Untitled, by Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940

Untitled

Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940 · ca. 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Autumn Flowers, by Shiomi Masanari 塩見政誠

Case (Inrō) with Design of Autumn Flowers

Shiomi Masanari 塩見政誠 · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages, by J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784

Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages

J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver Drinking Bowl with Handle

Silver Drinking Bowl with Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages, by J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784

Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages

J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Scattered Musical Instruments, Theatrical Implements, and Flowers, by Shibata Zeshin

Inrō with Scattered Musical Instruments, Theatrical Implements, and Flowers

Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a wooden house

Photograph of a wooden house

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Shucking Bucket

Shucking Bucket

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Bronze attachment with silver studs

Bronze attachment with silver studs

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze situla (bucket) with swinging handles

Bronze situla (bucket) with swinging handles

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Goblet and Cover (?)

Goblet and Cover (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 96897 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:09 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.