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 “Vase with alternating landscape and floral scenes” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:23 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 with alternating landscape and floral scenes

Vase with alternating landscape and floral scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Meissen Manufactory

Vase

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Vase

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · 1884–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with landscape scenes

Vase with landscape scenes

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with scenes of storm on land, by Dihl et Guérhard

Vase with scenes of storm on land

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York

Frieze

Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with scenes of storm at sea, by Dihl et Guérhard

Vase with scenes of storm at sea

Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Frieze

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by A. Panier, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Alfred Peats Company

Frieze

Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble-top table, by Theophil Hansen

Marble-top table

Theophil Hansen · ca. 1855–65

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (vase des âges) (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Vase with cover (vase des âges) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield with Hunting and Landscape Vignettes

Shield with Hunting and Landscape Vignettes

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–90

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. 261 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. 1528508 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 06:23 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.