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. 12 shown for “Covered Toddy Jug” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:44 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Cream jug and cover with tray

Cream jug and cover with tray

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Milk Jug, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Covered Milk Jug

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milk Jug with Horn of Plenty and Flowers

Milk Jug with Horn of Plenty and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Milk Jug, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Covered Milk Jug

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milk Jug with "Strohblumen" Pattern, by Tettau Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1794

Milk Jug with "Strohblumen" Pattern

Tettau Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1794 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Milk Jug, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Milk Jug

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eglinton, by W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854

Eglinton

W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Milk Jug with Chinoiserie Vignettes, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Covered Milk Jug with Chinoiserie Vignettes

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Milk Jug, by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Covered Milk Jug

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Samuel Wood, British, 1704 – 1794

Jug

Samuel Wood, British, 1704 – 1794 · 1781

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 37661 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 01:44 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.