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 “Sugar Box (part of a set)” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:48 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.

Sugar Bowl, by Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979

Sugar Bowl

Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

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

Sugar Bowl

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Creamer, by Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979

Creamer

Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lid and Two-Part Spout of Hot Water Kettle, by Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979

Lid and Two-Part Spout of Hot Water Kettle

Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979

Teapot

Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hot Water Urn, by Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979

Hot Water Urn

Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl, from a Miniature Tea Set, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Sugar Bowl, from a Miniature Tea Set

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · 19th–mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutch Color Standards

Dutch Color Standards

Artist not stated in the record · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe

Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe

Artist not stated in the record · 1946-1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George III silver sugar tongs

George III silver sugar tongs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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. 3862693 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-01 13:48 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.