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 “Wash Basin” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 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.
Wash basin, by J. Eberly and Company

Wash basin

J. Eberly and Company · 1892–1903

Public domainThe Met
Wash Basin

Wash Basin

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Master Potter A

Basin

Master Potter A · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Elevation and Plan of Wash Basin and Mirror in Carrara Marble

Elevation and Plan of Wash Basin and Mirror in Carrara Marble

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Symon Owen

Basin

Symon Owen · 1610–11

Public domainThe Met
Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin

Basin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Linanthus jonesii (A. Gray) Greene

Linanthus jonesii (A. Gray) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wash Basin

Wash Basin

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1799

Public domainThe Met
Washwomen with Flowers in their Hair, Barranquilla, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Washwomen with Flowers in their Hair, Barranquilla, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1-9, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wash Basin, by United States Pottery Company

Wash Basin

United States Pottery Company · 1849–58

Public domainThe Met
Phlox hoodii Richardson

Phlox hoodii Richardson

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wash Basin

Wash Basin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Encelia frutescens (A. Gray) A. Gray

Encelia frutescens (A. Gray) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wash Basin (Ashitsuki-darai)

Ritual Wash Basin (Ashitsuki-darai)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family and a Female Saint, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Holy Family and a Female Saint

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Marc Bazille

Basin

Marc Bazille · 1745–46

Public domainThe Met
Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Léopold Antoine

Basin

Léopold Antoine · 1727–29

Public domainThe Met
La Vivandiere à la Grecque

La Vivandiere à la Grecque

Artist not stated in the record · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Christophe-François Lacompart

Basin

Christophe-François Lacompart · 1728–29

Public domainThe Met
Mentzelia desertorum (Davidson) H.J. Thomps. & J.F. Macbr.

Mentzelia desertorum (Davidson) H.J. Thomps. & J.F. Macbr.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with the Arms of Blanche of Navarre

Plate with the Arms of Blanche of Navarre

Artist not stated in the record · 1427–38

Public domainThe Met
Eriocoma nelsonii (Scribn.) Romasch.

Eriocoma nelsonii (Scribn.) Romasch.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1953

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. 77 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 95241 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.