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 makara spout” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:12 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.
Ritual Ewer with Makara Spout

Ritual Ewer with Makara Spout

Artist not stated in the record · Dated by inscription to 1675

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ewer

Design for an Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with makara spout

Ewer with makara spout

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th 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
Ewer, by Thomas Fletcher

Ewer

Thomas Fletcher · 1830–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ewer with Spout and Loop Handle

Design for a Ewer with Spout and Loop Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

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

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Ewer and Basin, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Project for an Ewer and Basin

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with makara spout with lotus-form cover

Ewer with makara spout with lotus-form cover

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Elephant-Headed Spout

Ewer with Elephant-Headed Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Ewer

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer

Ewer

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer, by Faience Manufacturing Company

Ewer

Faience Manufacturing Company · 1886–90

Public domainThe Met
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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

Ewer

Jean Gorges I Morel · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer, by Peter Bettesworth

Ewer

Peter Bettesworth · 1635

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

Design for an Ewer

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with a Cock-Shaped Spout

Ewer with a Cock-Shaped Spout

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

Public domainThe Met
Ewer

Ewer

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

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. 94 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. 248850 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 11:12 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.