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 “Ewer with Floral Scroll” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Ewer with Floral Scroll

Ewer with Floral Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ewer Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Ewer Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ewer Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer, by Knowles, Taylor, and Knowles

Ewer

Knowles, Taylor, and Knowles · 1893–98

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Ewer

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer, by Jean Gorges I Morel

Ewer

Jean Gorges I Morel · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ewer Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament, by Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796

Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament

Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes

Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sculpture in the Form of a Ewer

Design for a Sculpture in the Form of a Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer (Brocca), by Medici Porcelain Manufactory

Ewer (Brocca)

Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–87

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Ewer, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for a Decorative Ewer

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlaid Ewer

Inlaid Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th– first quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer of Solid Silver made at Ispahan, by Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911

Ewer of Solid Silver made at Ispahan

Harry Fenn, American, 1845–1911 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with Floral Scroll

Jug with Floral Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ewer Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with floral design

Ewer with floral design

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monk’s cap ewer

Monk’s cap ewer

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with floral scrolls

Ewer with floral scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Burgermeister

Burgermeister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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. 543 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. 252746 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.