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 “Terracotta bowl with handle” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Terracotta bowl with handle

Terracotta bowl with handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bowl with vertical handle

Terracotta bowl with vertical handle

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta covered bowl with one handle

Terracotta covered bowl with one handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl), by Polyteleia Painter

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled Bowl, by Cornelius Kierstede

Two-handled Bowl

Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Spoon with Centipede on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Centipede on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta deep bowl with vertical handles

Terracotta deep bowl with vertical handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Spoon with Beetle on Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Beetle on Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Group of Boston 00.348

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Spoon with Rolled Leaf Handle, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Rolled Leaf Handle

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Spoon with Toad, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Toad

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

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. 4537 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. 279347 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 20:00 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.