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. 23 shown for “cup, feeding” — 53 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:41 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.
Feeding Cup

Feeding Cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
cup, feeding

cup, feeding

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Feeding Cup

Fragment of a Feeding Cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Birdcage in the Form of the Rialto Bridge

Birdcage in the Form of the Rialto Bridge

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feeding cup, by Thomas Holland I

Feeding cup

Thomas Holland I · 1707–8

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Sheet-Feed Apparatus with Vacuum Pipes, by Norelius, Oliver

Patent Model of a Sheet-Feed Apparatus with Vacuum Pipes

Norelius, Oliver · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feeding cup for infant

Feeding cup for infant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1950–1850 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotropaic rod

Apotropaic rod

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cup, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Cup

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crocodile figure

Crocodile figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup and Saucer

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1790–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket canteen (traveling set), by Charles Overing

Pocket canteen (traveling set)

Charles Overing · 1709/10

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Cup and Saucer

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strainer spoon, by S. T.

Strainer spoon

S. T. · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup and Saucer

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing boy with a goose

Standing boy with a goose

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828

Cup and Saucer

Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), by Vincennes Manufactory

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Cup and Saucer

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Levantine vessel with rampant goats and olive trees

Levantine vessel with rampant goats and olive trees

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 2nd–early 1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup with Monogram, by Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century

Cup with Monogram

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters

The Last Supper

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 9533 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 19:41 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.