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. 16 shown for “Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines and “double happiness” character” — 44 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 21:00 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.
Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines and “double happiness” character

Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines and “double happiness” character

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines

Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Title Page

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century or early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered pitcher, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Covered pitcher

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile with crowned double headed eagles

Textile with crowned double headed eagles

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

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

Clock Case Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Frieze

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · ca. 1757–1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
fork

fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
knife

knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Daum Frères, French, founded 1875

Vase

Daum Frères, French, founded 1875 · ca. 1880

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1533930 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-07 21:00 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.