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 “A Pitcher” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:10 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.
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher

Design for a Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher

Design for a Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Willets Manufacturing Company

Pitcher

Willets Manufacturing Company · 1887–93

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher

Design for a Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Tiffany & Co.

Pitcher

Tiffany & Co. · 1874–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher

Design for a Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Tiffany & Co.

Pitcher

Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher and Basin

Design for a Pitcher and Basin

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Charles Cartlidge and Company

Pitcher

Charles Cartlidge and Company · 1848–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher

Design for a Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by George E. Ohr

Pitcher

George E. Ohr · ca. 1898–1910

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Urn, a Pitcher, Vases

Design for an Urn, a Pitcher, Vases

Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Chelsea Keramic Art Works

Pitcher

Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1875–89

Public domainThe Met
A Pitcher

A Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Karl L. H. Müller

Pitcher

Karl L. H. Müller · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Sheet of a Drawing Book: Two Pitchers and Bowl, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Sheet of a Drawing Book: Two Pitchers and Bowl

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1625–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Dedham Pottery

Pitcher

Dedham Pottery · 1896

Public domainThe Met
ornament, christmas tree

ornament, christmas tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Charles Cartlidge and Company

Pitcher

Charles Cartlidge and Company · 1848–56

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Charles Cartlidge and Company

Pitcher

Charles Cartlidge and Company · ca. 1848–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a panel decoration showing a ewer, for a plate in the "Recueil d' Ornements", by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a panel decoration showing a ewer, for a plate in the "Recueil d' Ornements"

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1775

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. 1278 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1767393 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 2026-08-28 16:10 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.