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. 16 shown for “Globular jar” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 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.
Globular jar

Globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration

Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globular jar

Globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tomb jar

Tomb jar

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled globular jar

Two-handled globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar

Tea ceremony water jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globular necked jar

Globular necked jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Jar

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globular Jar

Globular Jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Globular Jar

Globular Jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Globular Jar

Globular Jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Globular jar

Globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Globular Jar

Globular Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Faience Ribbed Jar

Faience Ribbed Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Restorers' Jar

Restorers' Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1064–1058 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Globular Jar of King Merneferre Aya

Globular Jar of King Merneferre Aya

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1676 B.C.

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. 79 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. 13771 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:15 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.