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 birds and flowers” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:43 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.
Chinese figure with bird, by Meissen Manufactory

Chinese figure with bird

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727, mounts and flowers ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Greenwood Pottery Company

Vase

Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Ceiling Design

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by John Bennett

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall light (one of a pair), by Vincennes Manufactory

Wall light (one of a pair)

Vincennes Manufactory · birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Vase Design, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Vase Design

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Daniel Marot the Elder

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century

Title Page

L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
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 with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by François Voisin, French, active 18th century

Arabesque Design

François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Panel Designs, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Panel Designs

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with birds and flowers

Vase with birds and flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for Daybed Frames, by André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791

Three Designs for Daybed Frames

André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791 · 1849–66

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. 3079 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. 2080499 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 06:43 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.