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. 17 shown for “Bronze jug” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:48 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.
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Bartmann jug

Bartmann jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse (pence jug)

Purse (pence jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

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
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze jug handle

Bronze jug handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze jug with handle attachment showing running youth

Bronze jug with handle attachment showing running youth

Artist not stated in the record · 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze oinochoe (jug)

Bronze oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century 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. 128 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. 11367 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:48 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.