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. 14 shown for “Three-color Luster Bowl with Stylized Tree” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:34 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.
Three-color Luster Bowl with Stylized Tree

Three-color Luster Bowl with Stylized Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Bowl with Winged Horse

Luster Bowl with Winged Horse

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle (with Fork and Spoon)

Knife with Porcelain Handle (with Fork and Spoon)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1450

Public domainThe Met
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Old Trees, Level Distance, by Guo Xi

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Public domainThe Met
Three-Color Luster Bowl with a Checkerboard Pattern

Three-Color Luster Bowl with a Checkerboard Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks

Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks

Artist not stated in the record · second–third quarter 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc., by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc.

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · 1508

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Three-colored Luster Bowl with Foliated Rosettes

Three-colored Luster Bowl with Foliated Rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
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. 119 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. 171 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 15:34 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.