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 “Cream jug” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:13 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.
Cream jug, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Cream jug

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1800

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug, by Samuel Meriton

Cream jug

Samuel Meriton · 1754–55

Public domainThe Met
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
Miniature cream jug, by John Le Sage

Miniature cream jug

John Le Sage · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Apostles, by Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861

Apostles

Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Creamer, 1774, by Dupuy, Daniel

Creamer, 1774

Dupuy, Daniel · ca 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug, by William Townsend

Cream jug

William Townsend · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream Jug

Cream Jug

Artist not stated in the record · after 1900

Public domainThe Met
pitcher, cream

pitcher, cream

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug, by Davenport, Longport

Cream jug

Davenport, Longport · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cream jug

Cream jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

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. 91 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. 6973 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 2026-08-27 22:13 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.