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 “Tureen with lid and stand” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:06 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.
Tureen, by Paul de Lamerie

Tureen

Paul de Lamerie · 1736/37

Public domainThe Met
Tureen with lid and stand

Tureen with lid and stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen, by Charles Percier

Tureen

Charles Percier · 1794–1814

Public domainThe Met
Soup Tureen with the Arms of the Scholten-Hogenberg Family

Soup Tureen with the Arms of the Scholten-Hogenberg Family

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with cover and liner, by Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers

Tureen with cover and liner

Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers · 1775–76

Public domainThe Met
Preserve Tureen with Stand, from a Dessert Service, by Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776

Preserve Tureen with Stand, from a Dessert Service

Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776 · 1821–1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen and stand, by Bernhard Heinrich Weyhe

Tureen and stand

Bernhard Heinrich Weyhe · 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
Project for a tureen with papal coat of arms. Intended to be executed in silver.

Project for a tureen with papal coat of arms. Intended to be executed in silver.

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered tureen, by Dihl et Guérhard

Covered tureen

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1800–1815

Public domainThe Met
Tureen, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Tureen

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle and spirit lamp with stand, by Paul de Lamerie

Teakettle and spirit lamp with stand

Paul de Lamerie · 1744/45

Public domainThe Met
Soup Tureen, by John Wakelin, English, active 1776 – 1805

Soup Tureen

John Wakelin, English, active 1776 – 1805 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen and Stand, by Gorham Manufacturing Company

Tureen and Stand

Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1900

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary Tureen

Apothecary Tureen

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with cover and stand, by Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers

Tureen with cover and stand

Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers · 1770–71

Public domainThe Met
Tureen with Terrapin Lid, by Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979

Tureen with Terrapin Lid

Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with cover, by Edme-Pierre Balzac

Tureen with cover

Edme-Pierre Balzac · 1757–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen, by Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755

Design for a Tureen

Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with Landscape

Tureen with Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tureen and cover

Tureen and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by Sèvres Manufactory

Stand

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1777–85

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Tureen

Project for a Tureen

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen

Tureen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen

Design for a Tureen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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. 292 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. 1524079 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 01:06 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.