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 “Group of the Vienna Amphora” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 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.
Terracotta lid, by Group of the Vienna Amphora

Terracotta lid

Group of the Vienna Amphora · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar), by Leagros Group

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)

Leagros Group · ca. 510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure and Amphora from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure and Amphora from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Princeton Group

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sculptured Frieze with Amphora between Two Half Figures of Boys Pouring Water from Pitcher into Bowl, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sculptured Frieze with Amphora between Two Half Figures of Boys Pouring Water from Pitcher into Bowl

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Columbine and Pantaloon, by Vienna

Columbine and Pantaloon

Vienna · 1741–44

Public domainThe Met
Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of covered tureens, by Vienna

Pair of covered tureens

Vienna · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Retreat of the Turks after the Siege of Vienna, 1529, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Retreat of the Turks after the Siege of Vienna, 1529

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, by Kittos Group

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Kittos Group · ca. 366/365 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki, by Josef Georg Kornhäusel, Austrian, 1782 - 1860

Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki

Josef Georg Kornhäusel, Austrian, 1782 - 1860 · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Group E

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Group E · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
St. Stephen's Church, Vienna, by Henry Le Keux, English, born London, England 1787-died Bocking, England 1868

St. Stephen's Church, Vienna

Henry Le Keux, English, born London, England 1787-died Bocking, England 1868 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Group E

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Group E · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase in the Shape of an Amphora

Vase in the Shape of an Amphora

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Bateman Group

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Bateman Group · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe (jug), by Group of Vienna O.565

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Group of Vienna O.565 · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Praxias Group

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Praxias Group · ca. 480–460 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. 554 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. 2991783 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.