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 “Tea bowl with decoration of chrysanthemums and wavy lines” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:59 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.
Tea bowl with decoration of chrysanthemums and wavy lines

Tea bowl with decoration of chrysanthemums and wavy lines

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

Public domainThe Met
Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

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

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

Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

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

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
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tea bowl with design of chrysanthemums, by Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855)

Tea bowl with design of chrysanthemums

Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855) · 1805-1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Chelsea Keramic Art Works

Bowl

Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1877–85

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses, by Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871)

Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses

Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871) · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl decorated with chrysanthemums and wavy lines

Tea bowl decorated with chrysanthemums and wavy lines

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Ice Cream Spoon

Ice Cream Spoon

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and cover

Bowl and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and cover

Bowl and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

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. 478 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. 3140309 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 17:59 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.