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. 21 shown for “Canopic jar head of Kay” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:58 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.
Canopic jar head of Kay

Canopic jar head of Kay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic jar head of Kay

Canopic jar head of Kay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Bending to fill water jar; placing jar on head, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Bending to fill water jar; placing jar on head

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J.F. Macbr.

Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J.F. Macbr.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1933 or 3 Dec 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic jar with a human-headed lid

Canopic jar with a human-headed lid

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Jar

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic jar head

Canopic jar head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lifting jar to head, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Lifting jar to head

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1885-07-08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Canopic Jar of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carrying water jar on head, turning, placing it on ground, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Carrying water jar on head, turning, placing it on ground

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar with Head of Duamutef

Canopic Jar with Head of Duamutef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stooping and lifting water jar to head, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Stooping and lifting water jar to head

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic jar with human head (Imseti)

Canopic jar with human head (Imseti)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stooping, lifting water jar to head, and turning, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Stooping, lifting water jar to head, and turning

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dummy canopic jar with jackal head

Dummy canopic jar with jackal head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Canopic jar with human head

Canopic jar with human head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 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. 74 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 2886549 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 2026-08-27 21:58 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.