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 rim, handle, and upper body of a bowl” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:23 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 rim, handle, and upper body of a bowl

Terracotta rim, handle, and upper body of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash

Artist not stated in the record · 1807

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

Two-handled Bowl

Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for Pitcher and Basin

Design for Pitcher and Basin

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

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
Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim, body and handle from a cup

Terracotta rim, body and handle from a cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

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

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sugar Bowl

Design for a Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family, by S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family

S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim and upper body fragment from a straight-sided cup with tortoiseshell ripple motif

Terracotta rim and upper body fragment from a straight-sided cup with tortoiseshell ripple motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1525 BCE

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
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Water Kettle with Stand, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Water Kettle with Stand

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Maya artist(s)

Bowl

Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver tea pot

George III sterling silver tea pot

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
A Cantharus

A Cantharus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta two-handled vase

Terracotta two-handled vase

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffee Service, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Coffee Service

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

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. 3022 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. 4077189 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-10 20:23 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.