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. 23 shown for “Design for a Jar” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:50 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jar

Design for a Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

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

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jar

Design for a Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Dave (later recorded as David Drake)

Untitled

Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th 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
Jar, by Thomas W. Commeraw

Jar

Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Public domainThe Met
Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Fruits à l'eau de Vie (Fruits in Plum Liquor) for the Services des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Fruits à l'eau de Vie (Fruits in Plum Liquor) for the Services des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp

Design for an Oil Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Jar

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat

Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling

Project for a Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

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. 24078 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. 2098301 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-30 05:50 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.