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 “Deity Vessel” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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.
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deity Vessel

Deity Vessel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
The deities of Olympus

The deities of Olympus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lidded Vessel, by Yoruba artist

Lidded Vessel

Yoruba artist · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Aurora march two-step / by Harry J. Lincoln, by Lincoln, Harry J. 1878-1937

Aurora march two-step / by Harry J. Lincoln

Lincoln, Harry J. 1878-1937 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling with Jupiter, Juno, and Other Deities, by Giovanni Odazzi, 1663 – 1731

Ceiling with Jupiter, Juno, and Other Deities

Giovanni Odazzi, 1663 – 1731 · 1718–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deity figure, by Maya artist(s)

Deity figure

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
The deities of Olympus (The Olympian Gods), by Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811

The deities of Olympus (The Olympian Gods)

Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ehecatl (wind deity) vessel, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists

Ehecatl (wind deity) vessel

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists · 10th–13th CE

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel

Vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 04 “Juno,” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 04 “Juno,” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with deity, by Wari artist(s)

Bottle with deity

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 03 “Jupiter,” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 03 “Jupiter,” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulul (male rice deity figure), by Ifugao artist

Bulul (male rice deity figure)

Ifugao artist · 19th century or earlier

Public domainThe Met
Aerial flight galop brillante Edgar Dupont, by Dupont, Edgar

Aerial flight galop brillante Edgar Dupont

Dupont, Edgar · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Effigy vessel, by Huastec artist(s)

Effigy vessel

Huastec artist(s) · 900–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Menu for the Ball Given by James Hazen Hyde, January 31, 1905, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Menu for the Ball Given by James Hazen Hyde, January 31, 1905

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vulture vessel, by Itzocan artist(s)

Vulture vessel

Itzocan artist(s) · 1200–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 600–300 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Vessel

Architectural Vessel

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

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. 234 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. 163089 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-02 12:19 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.