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 “Tea Bowl with Chrysanthemum Decoration” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:14 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tea Bowl with Chrysanthemum Decoration

Tea Bowl with Chrysanthemum Decoration

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)

Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)

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

Public domainThe Met
Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Set of Five Teacups (Yunomi-wan) with Chrysanthemum and Broken-Ice Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), by Vincennes Manufactory

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
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. 149 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:14 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.