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. 19 shown for “Cylindrical jar” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:35 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.
Cylindrical jar

Cylindrical jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Crinoid Specimen in Cylindrical Jar Filled with Spirits, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Crinoid Specimen in Cylindrical Jar Filled with Spirits

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical jar

Cylindrical jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jellyfish Specimen in Cylindrical Jar Filled with Spirits, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Jellyfish Specimen in Cylindrical Jar Filled with Spirits

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical Jar

Cylindrical Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3200–3100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylindrical jar, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Cylindrical jar

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1876-1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical Jar

Cylindrical Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
E STOMACHI uteri

E STOMACHI uteri

Artist not stated in the record · 18th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
small Cylindrical Jar

small Cylindrical Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lidded Jar, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Lidded Jar

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
jar

jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1700 - 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical jar

Cylindrical jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
OPIAT, DENT

OPIAT, DENT

Artist not stated in the record · 19th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical jar

Cylindrical jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1842

Public domainThe Met
Cylindrical jar

Cylindrical jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cylindrical unguent vase with a lid

Cylindrical unguent vase with a lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Public domainThe Met
Short cylindrical jar

Short cylindrical jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder jar

Cylinder jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2649 B.C.

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. 125 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. 15736 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:35 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.