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 lion, elephant, and qilin” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:35 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 lion, elephant, and qilin

Vase with lion, elephant, and qilin

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Ornamental Vase Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Designs, by Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century

Ornamental Vase Designs

Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian

Artist not stated in the record · 521

Public domainThe Met
Spoon with Lion's Head (with Fork and Knife)

Spoon with Lion's Head (with Fork and Knife)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll

Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta cosmetic vase

Terracotta cosmetic vase

Artist not stated in the record · 4th quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Plaque with God Creating the Animals

Plaque with God Creating the Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 1084

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Ornamental Vase Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents

Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70

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. 387 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. 1529212 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 06:35 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.