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. 22 shown for “Covered jar with immortals” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:35 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 jar with immortals

Covered jar with immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Chantilly

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Ginger Jar

Ginger Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Box with Daoist Immortals

Box with Daoist Immortals

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered vase with immortals

Covered vase with immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Jar

Covered Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

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. 626 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. 273520 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 19:35 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.