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 “Akahada ware water jar” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 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.
Jar, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Jar

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Akahada ware water jar

Akahada ware water jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Jar

Water Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1689–1712

Public domainThe Met
Akahada ware tea bowl with design of standing cranes

Akahada ware tea bowl with design of standing cranes

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Jar

Water Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Jar

Water Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Public domainThe Met
Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Jar

Water Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop, by False seal of Chojiro

Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop

False seal of Chojiro · late 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures

Decorated Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3500–3300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type

Tea ceremony water jar, Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · 1640-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water jar with clouds

Water jar with clouds

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Shigaraki ware jar for hand-washing water, by Okuda Shinsai (1821-1902)

Shigaraki ware jar for hand-washing water

Okuda Shinsai (1821-1902) · ca. 1860-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Jar with Swirling Clouds

Water Jar with Swirling Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Public domainThe Met
Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware

Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea-ceremony water jar in style of Kyoto ware

Tea-ceremony water jar in style of Kyoto ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, Kyushu-related ware

Tea ceremony water jar, Kyushu-related ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th-mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pines

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pines

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nanban Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Large Handles, by Nonomura Ninsei

Nanban Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Large Handles

Nonomura Ninsei · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds, by Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds

Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th century

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. 63 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. 50788 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 2026-09-03 10:43 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.