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 “Green Glazed Jug” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:13 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.
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · late 1200s–early 1300s

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by William Watts Taylor, American, 1847-1913

Jug

William Watts Taylor, American, 1847-1913 · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Milk Jug with Horn of Plenty and Flowers

Milk Jug with Horn of Plenty and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Silenus, by Minton and Company, British, 1793 - 1968

Silenus

Minton and Company, British, 1793 - 1968 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Green Glazed Jug

Green Glazed Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Pitcher

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Eglinton, by W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854

Eglinton

W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1840

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Christopher Dresser

Jug

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1880

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
Untitled, by Unrecorded Edgefield District potter

Untitled

Unrecorded Edgefield District potter · ca. 1867–85

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Factory, active 1708–1860

Ewer

Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Factory, active 1708–1860 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1500

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913

Jug

George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913 · 1869–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · late 1200s–early 1300s

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Jug

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82

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
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. 1982 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 99730 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-03 09:13 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.