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 openwork pattern of flowers” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:39 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 openwork pattern of flowers

Vase with openwork pattern of flowers

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Ewer

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1894

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

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Tent panel

Tent panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

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

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Vase

Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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
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
Vase, by Newcomb Pottery

Vase

Newcomb Pottery · 1902

Public domainThe Met
Vase and Flowers, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Vase and Flowers

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th 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
Vase, by Dedham Pottery

Vase

Dedham Pottery · ca. 1896–1908

Public domainThe Met
Bands

Bands

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Factory of Olivier de Sorra

Vase

Factory of Olivier de Sorra · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Vase with Flowers, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Vase with Flowers

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by James Callowhill

Vase

James Callowhill · ca. 1889–1900

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

The Bryant Vase

Tiffany & Co. · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Chimneypiece, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Chimneypiece

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

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. 3584 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 2896682 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 06:39 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.