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 “Small Dish with Floral Design” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.

Panels

Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray for a Covered Dish, by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Tray for a Covered Dish

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Dessert Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heart-Shaped Dessert Dish, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Heart-Shaped Dessert Dish

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dessert Dish, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Dessert Dish

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (One of Four), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Dish (One of Four)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (One of Six), by Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812

Dish (One of Six)

Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1765

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. 348373 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 21:06 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.