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 “Silver phiale (libation bowl)” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 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 phiale (libation bowl)

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th or early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libation Bowl, by Unidentified

Libation Bowl

Unidentified · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libation Bowl, by Unidentified

Libation Bowl

Unidentified · 1600-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libation Bowl, by Unidentified

Libation Bowl

Unidentified · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver phiale (libation bowl) with gilding

Silver phiale (libation bowl) with gilding

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libation Bowl, by Unidentified

Libation Bowl

Unidentified · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eurema phiale

Eurema phiale

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Silver phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eurema phiale

Eurema phiale

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Victory Celebration, by William Pitts

Panel with Victory Celebration

William Pitts · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bell Krater

Bell Krater

Artist not stated in the record · 350–300 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl

Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

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. 74 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. 122469 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:52 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.