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 “Wine Glass with Shipping Scene” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:10 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.
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Shipping Scene

Wine Glass with Shipping Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
L'AUTONNE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'AUTONNE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine pot in the shape of a peach (cadogan type), by Meissen Manufactory

Wine pot in the shape of a peach (cadogan type)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
FESTE BACCHIQUE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

FESTE BACCHIQUE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlays and Shrine Elements

Inlays and Shrine Elements

Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Les Buveurs

Les Buveurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass amphoriskos

Glass amphoriskos

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
L'Autonne, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'Autonne

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine goblet

Wine goblet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
L'AVTOMNE, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

L'AVTOMNE

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet with Applied Decoration

Goblet with Applied Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)

The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Long-Necked Bottle

Long-Necked Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl (pot à sucre ovoïde), by Sèvres Manufactory

Sugar bowl (pot à sucre ovoïde)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl with cover (pot à sucre Bouret) (part of a service), by Sèvres Manufactory

Sugar bowl with cover (pot à sucre Bouret) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1775

Public domainThe Met
Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass, by Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century

Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass

Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century · 1650–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Base with Miracle Scenes

Bowl Base with Miracle Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–400

Public domainThe Met
The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

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. 89 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. 318519 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 09:10 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.