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 “Hexagonal Pilgrim's Jar with Jewish Symbol” — 56 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:37 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.
Hexagonal Pilgrim's Jar with Jewish Symbol

Hexagonal Pilgrim's Jar with Jewish Symbol

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 578–636

Public domainThe Met
Ocean Wave Hexagons

Ocean Wave Hexagons

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jug with Jewish symbols

Glass hexagonal jug with Jewish symbols

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jug

Hexagonal Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–mid-7th century

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary Jar

Apothecary Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jar with basket handle

Glass hexagonal jar with basket handle

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain in a Park, by De Crenice, French

Design for a Fountain in a Park

De Crenice, French · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jug

Hexagonal Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller), by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jug with Handles

Hexagonal Jug with Handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–mid-7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Libyan Sibyl, by William Wetmore Story, born Salem, MA 1819-died Vallombrosa, Italy 1895

The Libyan Sibyl

William Wetmore Story, born Salem, MA 1819-died Vallombrosa, Italy 1895 · modeled 1861, carved 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jug

Glass hexagonal jug

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jug

Glass hexagonal jug

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary Jar: LAP

Apothecary Jar: LAP

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
C C RECT

C C RECT

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
FLOR AMON S

FLOR AMON S

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary Jar, RAD IPECAC

Apothecary Jar, RAD IPECAC

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Octagonal Bottle

Octagonal Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 500–629

Public domainThe Met
Apothecary Jar

Apothecary Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 16 matched · 16 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. 263848 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 01:37 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.