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 kyathos (single-handled cup)” — 61 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 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 kyathos (single-handled cup)

Bronze kyathos (single-handled cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two-Handled Cup, by John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865

Two-Handled Cup

John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze kyathos (single-handled jug)

Bronze kyathos (single-handled jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Child's Cup, by Gorham Manufacturing Company

Child's Cup

Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kyathos (single-handled cup)

Terracotta kyathos (single-handled cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum, by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Candelabrum

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kyathos (single-handled cup)

Terracotta kyathos (single-handled cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum, by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Candelabrum

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candelabrum

Design for a Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Artist not stated in the record · 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Artist not stated in the record · 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Artist not stated in the record · 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Bronze kyathos (ladle)

Artist not stated in the record · 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

Terracotta kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530–500 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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 1 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. 9595 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 2026-08-27 18:46 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.