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 “Tomb dish” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:15 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.
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb dish

Tomb dish

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb dish or lid

Tomb dish or lid

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Unidentified (Roman)

Dish

Unidentified (Roman)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Unidentified

Dish

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25-27, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Distant View of the Royal Tombs, Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Distant View of the Royal Tombs, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Oval Storage Basket

Large Oval Storage Basket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb

Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Madame Lecompte, by Clay, Edward Williams

Madame Lecompte

Clay, Edward Williams · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Tomb Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

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. 165 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. 7417 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 04:15 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.