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 with geometric decoration” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:05 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 with geometric decoration

Covered urn with geometric decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Urns

Pair of Urns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered urn with geometric decoration

Covered urn with geometric decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Urn with Gold and Flower Pattern, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Urn with Gold and Flower Pattern

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Urn

Urn

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 700 BCE

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

Urn

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

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot with Urn Pattern, by Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747

Coffeepot with Urn Pattern

Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn

Urn

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

Public domainThe Met
Teapot with Urn Pattern, by Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747

Teapot with Urn Pattern

Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stamnoid cinerary urn with lid

Terracotta stamnoid cinerary urn with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–600 BCE

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
Covered sugar bowl, by William W. Gilbert

Covered sugar bowl

William W. Gilbert · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design

Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sugarbowl and cover

Sugarbowl and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Container with Spiral Decoration

Container with Spiral Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by Samuel Wood, British, 1704 – 1794

Jug

Samuel Wood, British, 1704 – 1794 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Urn

Covered Urn

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

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
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. 532 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 290728 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 16:05 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.