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. 19 shown for “Beth Pelet Painter” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:41 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.
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase), by Beth Pelet Painter

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)

Beth Pelet Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
V-Mail letter sheet

V-Mail letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase), by Beth Pelet Painter

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)

Beth Pelet Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, by Unidentified

Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

Unidentified · 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Eretria Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Eretria Painter · ca. 420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stachys cretica L.

Stachys cretica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Penthesilea Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stachys neurocalycina Boiss.

Stachys neurocalycina Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl), by Dolon Painter

Terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl)

Dolon Painter · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scabiosa palaestina L.

Scabiosa palaestina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
V-Mail letter sheet

V-Mail letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta cup: cow's hoof, by Brygos Painter

Terracotta cup: cow's hoof

Brygos Painter · ca. 470–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
V-Mail letter sheet

V-Mail letter sheet

Artist not stated in the record · June 8, 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe (jug), by Andokides Painter

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Andokides Painter · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta column-krater (vase for mixing wine and water), by Boreas Painter

Terracotta column-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Boreas Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, by Kleophrades Painter

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Kleophrades Painter · ca. 525–500 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. 63 matched · 24 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. 13151 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:41 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.