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 “Decorated Jug of Neferkhawet” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:20 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.
Decorated Jug of Neferkhawet

Decorated Jug of Neferkhawet

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

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · late 1200s–early 1300s

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
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Covered Milk Jug

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Nathaniel Seymour

Untitled

Nathaniel Seymour · ca. 1790–1820

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
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1830

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Lambeth Factories

Jug

Lambeth Factories · ca. 1647

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Covered Milk Jug

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Covered Milk Jug

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1602

Public domainThe Met
Eglinton, by W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854

Eglinton

W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Justus Alexander Ernst Glüer

Jug

Justus Alexander Ernst Glüer · ca. 1725

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

Apostles

Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Bartholomäus Seuter

Jug

Bartholomäus Seuter · 1720

Public domainThe Met
Jug and lid, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jug and lid

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug Decorated with Dolphins and Birds

Jug Decorated with Dolphins and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Milk Jug, by Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1764

Milk Jug

Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1764 · ca. 1800

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. 461 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2863111 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 09:20 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.