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. 21 shown for “Fired clay jar sealing” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:14 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.
Fired clay jar sealing

Fired clay jar sealing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Five-Gallon Home Brew Jar, by Unidentified

Five-Gallon Home Brew Jar

Unidentified · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fired clay jar sealing with ostrich hieroglyphs

Fired clay jar sealing with ostrich hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar with Bilateral Lug Handles, by Unidentified

Jar with Bilateral Lug Handles

Unidentified · 20th century (pre-1974)

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

Jar

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with carp in lotus pond

Jar with carp in lotus pond

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Clay Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark, by unknown

Clay Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark

unknown · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sealed Amphora Containing Oil

Sealed Amphora Containing Oil

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Clay Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark, by unknown

Clay Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark

unknown · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moon jar

Moon jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Jug with Lizard Handle, by Unidentified

Jug with Lizard Handle

Unidentified · 20th century (pre-1974)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug with Blue-on-Brown Glaze, by Unidentified

Jug with Blue-on-Brown Glaze

Unidentified · 20th century (pre-1974)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Nonomura Ninsei

Jar

Nonomura Ninsei · 1730

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher with Blue-on-Brown Glaze, by Unidentified

Pitcher with Blue-on-Brown Glaze

Unidentified · 20th century (pre-1974)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Double-handled Whiskey Jug, by Unidentified

Double-handled Whiskey Jug

Unidentified · 20th century (pre-1974)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with lid

Jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Prisoner jar

Prisoner jar

Artist not stated in the record · 200–800 CE

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. 198 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 57444 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 19:14 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.