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 of the One-handled Kantharoi” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:59 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 one-handled kantharos (drinking cup), by Class of the One-handled Kantharoi

Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup)

Class of the One-handled Kantharoi · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern

Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern

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

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, bellflower and rope motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, bellflower and rope motif, spade handle

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

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
Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, rope motif, spade handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Bouquet holder, mirrored, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, mirrored, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles): two female heads, by Brygos Painter

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles): two female heads

Brygos Painter · ca. 490–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, crest, bone handle

Bouquet holder, crest, bone handle

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, jeweled, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, jeweled, mother of pearl 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 vase and handle

Bouquet holder, enamel vase and handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boquet holder, mirrored, mother of pearl handle

Boquet holder, mirrored, mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles), by Painter of Bari 5981

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Painter of Bari 5981 · ca. 325–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, mesh with mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, mesh with mother of pearl handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold kantharos (drinking cup with two high vertical handles)

Gold kantharos (drinking cup with two high vertical handles)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, grape & leaf motif, curlicue handle

Bouquet holder, grape & leaf motif, curlicue handle

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cantharus (drinking cup)

Glass cantharus (drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 40–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, classical female head, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, classical female head, mother of pearl handle

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, enameled flower handle

Bouquet holder, enameled flower handle

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. 83 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. 8628 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 19:59 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.