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. 16 shown for “Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus” — 44 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:27 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 peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus

Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus

Artist not stated in the record

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

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers

Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha’s Hand Fruits with Peaches, Pomegranates, and Leaves of Fungus

Buddha’s Hand Fruits with Peaches, Pomegranates, and Leaves of Fungus

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Versailles, by Jacques Grimault, French, active 17th century

Vase de marbre blanc à Versailles

Jacques Grimault, French, active 17th century · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit and Flowers, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Fruit and Flowers

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Pink, brown, by Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904

Pink, brown

Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by A. Panier, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1772-1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist altarpiece

Buddhist altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · 597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral peach brocade evening jacket, by Unidentified

Floral peach brocade evening jacket

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

Ornamental Vase Design

Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall, by Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

Sidewall

Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1900

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1532231 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 02:27 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.