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 “Bottle, Prisoner” — 50 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 19:52 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.
Bottle, Prisoner

Bottle, Prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Prisoner Single Spout Bottle

Seated Prisoner Single Spout Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Union Prisoner-of-War Cover

Union Prisoner-of-War Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bridge and Spout Bottle with Seated Prisoner

Bridge and Spout Bottle with Seated Prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Union Prisoner-of-War Cover

Union Prisoner-of-War Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fox Warrior Bottle

Fox Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Union Prisoner-of-War Cover

Union Prisoner-of-War Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior Bottle

Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Union prisoner of war cover

Union prisoner of war cover

Artist not stated in the record · May 12, 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with fox head, by Moche artist(s)

Bottle with fox head

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Union prisoner of war cover

Union prisoner of war cover

Artist not stated in the record · Oct. 26, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spectacled Bear Bottle

Spectacled Bear Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace

Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace

Artist not stated in the record · after 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield, by Moche artist(s)

Shield

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
A Visit to the Alexandrofski Prison, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

A Visit to the Alexandrofski Prison

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staggering-Bobs, a Tale for Scotchmen, or Munchausen Driving his Calves to Market, by James Gillray

Staggering-Bobs, a Tale for Scotchmen, or Munchausen Driving his Calves to Market

James Gillray · December 1, 1796

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior with the Death of Socrates, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Prison Interior with the Death of Socrates

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji, by Unidentified artist

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji

Unidentified artist · early 15th century

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 15199 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 19:52 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.