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 Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:01 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 Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures

Decorated Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3500–3300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le Printemps, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Le Printemps

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

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

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Portique de treillage a la teste de l’isle du Dragon, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Portique de treillage a la teste de l’isle du Dragon

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1670–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse of Champagnat

Chasse of Champagnat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Public domainThe Met
Jar with design of fence and grasses, Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type

Jar with design of fence and grasses, Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by New York Nessos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
LA PORTE ST. BERNARD, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA PORTE ST. BERNARD

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1674–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base of a Footed Buff Ware Vessel

Base of a Footed Buff Ware Vessel

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

Public domainThe Met
LE BASSIN DE L’ISLE D’AMOUR, où L’ISLE ROYALE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE BASSIN DE L’ISLE D’AMOUR, où L’ISLE ROYALE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1681–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Tobacco box

Tobacco box

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated ware jar with boats and human figures and falcon-styled lugs

Decorated ware jar with boats and human figures and falcon-styled lugs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3450–3300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brighella on a pedestal, by Meissen Manufactory

Brighella on a pedestal

Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13

Public domainThe Met
Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Figure and Birds

Bowl with a Figure and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Earthenware Jar, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Earthenware Jar

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words

Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration

Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prisoner jar

Prisoner jar

Artist not stated in the record · 200–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ship, by Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641

Ship

Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641 · ca. 1600

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. 71 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. 1543206 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 13:01 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.