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 “Glass jug with trefoil rim” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:50 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.
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century CE or later

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–mid-5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

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

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jug and lid, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jug and lid

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug with trefoil rim

Glass jug with trefoil rim

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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
Glass jug

Glass jug

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Milk Jug

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug, by Ennion

Glass jug

Ennion · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass oinochoe (jug)

Glass oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Stand

Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 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. 205 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. 319729 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 2026-09-01 16:50 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.