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. 21 shown for “Terracotta two-handled bowl” — 64 records examined, 25 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.
Terracotta two-handled bowl

Terracotta two-handled bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century 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 two-handled bowl

Terracotta two-handled bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta two-handled bowl with spout

Terracotta two-handled bowl with spout

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two-Handled Sugar Bowl, by Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl

Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872 · late 19th–early 20th century

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

Two-handled Bowl

Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Monogram and Diamond Lattice Pattern, by Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Monogram and Diamond Lattice Pattern

Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872 · ca. 1901

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
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

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
Drawing, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Drawing

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1915

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
Project for a Set of Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Project for a Set of Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes, by The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes

The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915 · 1900–1915

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
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
Demitasse Spoon with Two Ants Feeding on a Dead Bee, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Demitasse Spoon with Two Ants Feeding on a Dead Bee

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl and lid

Bowl and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Bowls

Sketches of Bowls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

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. 2389 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. 399 matched · 40 examined · 24 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.