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. 17 shown for “Jar (Aryballos) with a cartouche derived from names of Apries or Amasis” — 45 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:24 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.
Jar (Aryballos) with a cartouche derived from names of Apries or Amasis

Jar (Aryballos) with a cartouche derived from names of Apries or Amasis

Artist not stated in the record · 664–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Osiris with the epithets Neb Ankh and Khentyimentiu, donated by Padihorpare

Statuette of Osiris with the epithets Neb Ankh and Khentyimentiu, donated by Padihorpare

Artist not stated in the record · 589–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
CROCUS

CROCUS

Artist not stated in the record · 1700 - 1799

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

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos

Aryballos

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century to 6th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tetrapod Jar

Tetrapod Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE–1 CE

Public domainThe Met
TROCH BECH CITR

TROCH BECH CITR

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, Ritual Scenes

Jar, Ritual Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Drug Jar

Drug Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
VN DIFENSIVO

VN DIFENSIVO

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
C ROSAR: PALLID

C ROSAR: PALLID

Artist not stated in the record · 18th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MANN: CANNAL, by Pennis, Johannis

MANN: CANNAL

Pennis, Johannis · 1723-1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
R. Nardi Yndica

R. Nardi Yndica

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pil agar

Pil agar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
CORALL RUB

CORALL RUB

Artist not stated in the record · 1700 - 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1500

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7474770 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-04 23:24 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.