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 “Small Dish (Kozara) with Chinese Male Figure” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:33 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.
Small Dish (Kozara) with Chinese Male Figure

Small Dish (Kozara) with Chinese Male Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–30s

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male and Female Shinto Deities

Male and Female Shinto Deities

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish depicting The Death of Saul, by Medici Porcelain Manufactory

Dish depicting The Death of Saul

Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–80

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with two boys and foliage

Bowl with two boys and foliage

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brighella on a pedestal, by Meissen Manufactory

Brighella on a pedestal

Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lioness (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Lioness (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer (Brocca), by Medici Porcelain Manufactory

Ewer (Brocca)

Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–87

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Food warmer with insert, by Vienna

Food warmer with insert

Vienna · ca. 1730–35

Public domainThe Met
Clock and key

Clock and key

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with two boys

Dish with two boys

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tomb dish

Tomb dish

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd 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. 39 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. 1000016 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-28 00:33 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.