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 “Covered Urn” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:42 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.
Covered Urn

Covered Urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1815

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Table Clock, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Table Clock

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Urn

Covered Urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1815

Public domainThe Met
Black Basalt Covered Urn, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Black Basalt Covered Urn

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn, by New Bremen Glass Manufactory

Urn

New Bremen Glass Manufactory · 1788–95

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Covered Urns, by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Pair of Covered Urns

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · 1740–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Urn, by Paul Revere Jr.

Tea Urn

Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Console Table, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Console Table

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Urn

Covered Urn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 2 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 2 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Urn

Covered Urn

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 1 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Urn

Covered Urn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1816–23

Public domainThe Met
Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn

Urn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1831–35

Public domainThe Met
Sugarbowl and cover

Sugarbowl and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn

Urn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1831–35

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot and stand

Coffeepot and stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature urn with cover, by A. L. & W. L.

Miniature urn with cover

A. L. & W. L. · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Dixieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier, Surtout de Table/Terrine [Tenth Series of Designs from the work of J.A. Meissonnier, Table Centerpiece/Tureen], pl. 61 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Dixieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier, Surtout de Table/Terrine [Tenth Series of Designs from the work of J.A. Meissonnier, Table Centerpiece/Tureen], pl. 61 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1742–48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered sugar bowl, by William W. Gilbert

Covered sugar bowl

William W. Gilbert · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Wood Engraving. Vignette.

Wood Engraving. Vignette.

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary urn

Marble cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Coffee Urn, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Coffee Urn

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1810

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. 119 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. 38215 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-08 17:42 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.