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 roundels of phoenix and chi dragon” — 60 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:01 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 roundels of phoenix and chi dragon

Vase with roundels of phoenix and chi dragon

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Vase Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with dragon and phoenix

Vase with dragon and phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–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 in Meiping Shape with Phoenix

Vase in Meiping Shape with Phoenix

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double vase with dragons and phoenixes

Double vase with dragons and phoenixes

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Title Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with chi dragons

Vase with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Title Page

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Ornament Designs with Roundels, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Two Ornament Designs with Roundels

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pour d’Autres Vases, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Pour d’Autres Vases

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Table and Wall Bracket Designs, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Table and Wall Bracket Designs

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Plusieurs Vases avec un Soubasemens d’Appuy, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Plusieurs Vases avec un Soubasemens d’Appuy

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with dragon and phoenix

Vase with dragon and phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase circled with a chi dragon

Vase circled with a chi dragon

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker-Shaped Vase with Dragon and Phoenix (Hua Gu)

Beaker-Shaped Vase with Dragon and Phoenix (Hua Gu)

Artist not stated in the record

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. 20 matched · 20 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. 3172434 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 2026-09-03 04:01 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.