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. 22 shown for “Water Dropper in the Shape of a Chrysanthemum” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 09:02 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.
Water Dropper in the Shape of a Chrysanthemum

Water Dropper in the Shape of a Chrysanthemum

Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water dropper in the shape of a rhinoceros

Water dropper in the shape of a rhinoceros

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Fish Knife, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Fish Knife

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Dropper in the form of a Seated Demon

Water Dropper in the form of a Seated Demon

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Hunchbacked Chinese Man

Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Hunchbacked Chinese Man

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea or hot water urn, by John McMullin

Tea or hot water urn

John McMullin · 1799

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water-Dropper (Suiteki) in Raccoon Dog Shape

Water-Dropper (Suiteki) in Raccoon Dog Shape

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Man

Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Man

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass snake-thread dropper flask

Glass snake-thread dropper flask

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Box (Tebako) with Chrysanthemum Flowers

Cosmetic Box (Tebako) with Chrysanthemum Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 15th century

Public domainThe Met
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
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. 1058 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7484897 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-10 09:02 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.