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. 24 shown for “Class S: The Canessa Class of Head Vases” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:18 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 oinochoe (jug) in the form of a woman's head, by Class S: The Canessa Class of Head Vases

Terracotta oinochoe (jug) in the form of a woman's head

Class S: The Canessa Class of Head Vases · ca. 460–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Auto vase, cone

Auto vase, cone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1913-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles), by Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, classical heads, with case

Bouquet holder, classical heads, with case

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, agate, mother of pearl

Bouquet holder, agate, mother of pearl

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head, by Oxford Class of Head Vases

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head

Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, birds and cherry motif

Bouquet holder, birds and cherry motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug) in the form of a woman's head, by Class N: The Cook Class of Head Vases

Terracotta oinochoe (jug) in the form of a woman's head

Class N: The Cook Class of Head Vases · 2nd quarter of 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, incised arches

Bouquet holder, incised arches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta mug in the form of a woman's head, by Class G: The London Class of Head Vases

Terracotta mug in the form of a woman's head

Class G: The London Class of Head Vases · ca. 500–490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, serpent and leaves

Bouquet holder, serpent and leaves

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Pagenstecher Class

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Pagenstecher Class · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, beads, tripod, with case

Bouquet holder, beads, tripod, with case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta mug in the form of a satyr's head, by Carlsruhe Painter

Terracotta mug in the form of a satyr's head

Carlsruhe Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, oak leaf motif

Bouquet holder, oak leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) in the form of the heads of Herakles and of a woman, by Syriskos Painter

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) in the form of the heads of Herakles and of a woman

Syriskos Painter · ca. 470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, light blue enamel handle

Bouquet holder, light blue enamel handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, mirrors with bone handle

Bouquet holder, mirrors with bone handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with two vertical handles): heads of a satyr and a woman, by Aison

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with two vertical handles): heads of a satyr and a woman

Aison · ca. 420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, enamel on vase and handle

Bouquet holder, enamel on vase and handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Class of Hamburg 1917.477

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Class of Hamburg 1917.477 · ca. 510–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape and leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 318 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3498594 matched · 40 examined · 28 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:18 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.