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. 18 shown for “Amulet: Hes Vase” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 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.
Amulet: Hes Vase

Amulet: Hes Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amulet of "heart vase" (ab) form, with horizontal bore

Amulet of "heart vase" (ab) form, with horizontal bore

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by John Bennett

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Amulet of "heart vase" (ab) form

Amulet of "heart vase" (ab) form

Artist not stated in the record · 1307-1196 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Public domainThe Met
Five of Spades, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Five of Spades

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hes Vase

Hes Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

Ornamental Vase Design

Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cowroid Seal-Amulet

Cowroid Seal-Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Embroidery Design of Two Commedia dell'Arte Figures, by Santo Vallardi, Milan & Paris

Embroidery Design of Two Commedia dell'Arte Figures

Santo Vallardi, Milan & Paris · 1820–50

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

Vase

Tiffany & Co. · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Tongue amulet in the form of a cicada

Tongue amulet in the form of a cicada

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Anthony W. Baecher

Vase

Anthony W. Baecher · 1880–89

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by George E. Ohr

Vase

George E. Ohr · ca. 1897–1900

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by George E. Ohr

Vase

George E. Ohr · ca. 1897–1900

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Meissen Manufactory

Vase

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Hugh C. Robertson

Vase

Hugh C. Robertson · ca. 1896–1908

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Hugh C. Robertson

Vase

Hugh C. Robertson · ca. 1896–1908

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. 742 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 33665 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:29 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.