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 lion-head handles” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:19 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 lion-head handles

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Stove and cover

Stove and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jug

Glass hexagonal jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two bronze handles

Two bronze handles

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

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
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
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Ornamental Vase Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with double handles, by Diosphos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with double handles

Diosphos Painter · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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

Vase with lion-head handles

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and vertical spout)

Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and vertical spout)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Ornamental Vase Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)

Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 425–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)

Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 1 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and spout)

Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and spout)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta guttus with lid (flask with handle and spout)

Terracotta guttus with lid (flask with handle and spout)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Ornament Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788–89

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. 43 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. 221 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 06:19 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.