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 design of "Hundred Antiques"” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:00 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

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Public domainThe Met
Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity", by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"

Taizan Yohei · 1850-1860

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

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Vase with design of dragons chasing flaming jewel

Vase with design of dragons chasing flaming jewel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Ornamental Vase Design

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Vase, by Thomas Fletcher

Presentation Vase

Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Ornamental Vase Design

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bryant Vase, by Tiffany & Co.

The Bryant Vase

Tiffany & Co. · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

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

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, peacock tail motif, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, peacock tail motif, mother of pearl handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Kate B. Sears

Vase

Kate B. Sears · ca. 1892

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Matthew Boulton

Vase

Matthew Boulton · ca. 1772

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Ornamental Vase Design

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Ornamental Vase Design

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

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. 1275 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 2900713 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 2026-09-03 04:00 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.