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 “Terracotta two-handled cup” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:02 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Cup, by John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865

Two-Handled Cup

John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with "Etruscan" Handles and Saucer (Gobelet à Anses Etrusques et Soucoupe), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup with "Etruscan" Handles and Saucer (Gobelet à Anses Etrusques et Soucoupe)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Two-Handled Cup and Saucer, by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Covered Two-Handled Cup and Saucer

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Egg cup

Egg cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jigger measuring cup from Lyons Hall

Jigger measuring cup from Lyons Hall

Artist not stated in the record · after 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer

Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 144 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 2026-09-01 04:02 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.