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 “Tankard with Peony Scroll” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Tankard with Peony Scroll

Tankard with Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Böttger Stoneware Tankard, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Böttger Stoneware Tankard

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Peony Scroll

Bottle with Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Pewter-Mounted Tankard, by R. Broadhead & Company, English, established 1853

Pewter-Mounted Tankard

R. Broadhead & Company, English, established 1853 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Design for the Decoration of a Tankard

Ornamental Design for the Decoration of a Tankard

Artist not stated in the record · 1717-1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Thomas Hamersley

Tankard

Thomas Hamersley · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Tankard

Tankard

Artist not stated in the record · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Jacobus Vander Spiegel

Tankard

Jacobus Vander Spiegel · 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941

Textile

Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Meissen Manufactory

Tankard

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Peony Scroll

Dish with Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Napkin

Napkin

Artist not stated in the record · 1680s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peony and Bamboo, by Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran

Peony and Bamboo

Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Howell and Brothers, 1835 – 1900

Sidewall

Howell and Brothers, 1835 – 1900 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell, by Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell

Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with Floral Scroll

Jug with Floral Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Peonies

Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Bartholomew Schaats

Tankard

Bartholomew Schaats · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Tankard, by Florence E. Barlow, English, 1873–1909

Tankard

Florence E. Barlow, English, 1873–1909 · 1884

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. 79 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 250688 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 11:45 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.