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. 22 shown for “Armorial Jug (vaso)” — 58 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:44 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.
Armorial Jug (vaso)

Armorial Jug (vaso)

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Set of Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Project for a Set of Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial jug

Armorial jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1513–34

Public domainThe Met
Lolium remotum Schrank

Lolium remotum Schrank

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial jug (boccale)

Armorial jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–1500

Public domainThe Met
Manihot carthagenensis (Jacq.) Müll. Arg.

Manihot carthagenensis (Jacq.) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial jug (boccale)

Armorial jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–90

Public domainThe Met
Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis

Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial jug (boccale)

Armorial jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Carex intumescens Rudge

Carex intumescens Rudge

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial Jug (boccale)

Armorial Jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Public domainThe Met
Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.

Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial Jug (boccale)

Armorial Jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–80

Public domainThe Met
Carex pensylvanica Lam.

Carex pensylvanica Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial Jug (boccale)

Armorial Jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Carex emmonsii Dewey ex Torr.

Carex emmonsii Dewey ex Torr.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial Jug (boccale)

Armorial Jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–80

Public domainThe Met
Carex annectens (E.P. Bicknell) E.P. Bicknell var. annectens

Carex annectens (E.P. Bicknell) E.P. Bicknell var. annectens

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial Jug (boccale)

Armorial Jug (boccale)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)

Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 625–600 BCE

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 3950 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:44 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.