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. 24 shown for “Small jar and cover decorated with chrysanthemums, cranes, and clouds” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:06 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.
Small jar and cover decorated with chrysanthemums, cranes, and clouds

Small jar and cover decorated with chrysanthemums, cranes, and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Chantilly

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl decorated with cranes, rain, and chrysanthemums

Bowl decorated with cranes, rain, and chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Box and cover

Box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vertical flute decorated with chrysanthemums, cranes, and clouds

Vertical flute decorated with chrysanthemums, cranes, and clouds

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Jar (Albarello)

Covered Jar (Albarello)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

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. 134 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. 1590465 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-08 16:06 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.