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 stylized phoenix handles” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:40 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 stylized phoenix handles

Hexagonal vase with stylized phoenix handles

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

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
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
Ornamental Vase Design, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

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 Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Ornamental Vase Design

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

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
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 bottle

Glass hexagonal bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

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
Ornamental Vase Designs, by Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century

Ornamental Vase Designs

Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

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

Ornamental Vase Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass hexagonal jug

Glass hexagonal jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Designs, by Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century

Ornamental Vase Designs

Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

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
Bonad

Bonad

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

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

Ornamental Vase Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers

Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Ornamental Vase Design

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 58 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. 266929 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 06:40 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.