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 vase with cloud-shaped handles” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:25 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 vase with cloud-shaped handles

Hexagonal vase with cloud-shaped handles

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Title Page

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jug

Glass hexagonal jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Stove and cover

Stove and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases", by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle

Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with tubular handles

Hexagonal vase with tubular handles

Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with tubular handles

Hexagonal vase with tubular handles

Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with stylized phoenix handles

Hexagonal vase with stylized phoenix handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles

Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand

Inkstand

Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats, by Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891

Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats

Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase (one of a pair), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Vase (one of a pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1762

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by A. Panier, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793

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. 27 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. 308 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-08 02:25 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.