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. 12 shown for “Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of two heads” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:01 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of two heads

Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of two heads

Artist not stated in the record · 4th quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of four heads

Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of four heads

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Faience aryballos (perfume vase)

Faience aryballos (perfume vase)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a head of Acheloös

Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a head of Acheloös

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head, by Oxford Class of Head Vases

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head

Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a human figure

Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a human figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 640–625 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase), by Sydney Cluster

Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase)

Sydney Cluster · ca. 620–590 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos (perfume vase) with trefoil opening

Aryballos (perfume vase) with trefoil opening

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles), by Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos (perfume vase) with two registers of animals

Aryballos (perfume vase) with two registers of animals

Artist not stated in the record · 664–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a hedgehog

Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a hedgehog

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a monkey

Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a monkey

Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 266 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:01 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.