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 “Jar (Tsubo) with Stylized Net Design” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 03:32 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 (Tsubo) with Stylized Net Design

Jar (Tsubo) with Stylized Net Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–40

Public domainThe Met
Bands

Bands

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums

Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jar

Design for a Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design

Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Stylized Waves, by Shibata Zeshin

Inrō with Stylized Waves

Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Jar and lid

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wallpaper Design

Wallpaper Design

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar Depicting Three Spirited Peacocks

Jar Depicting Three Spirited Peacocks

Artist not stated in the record · second half 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words

Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

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
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: creature flanking stylized tree

Cylinder seal and modern impression: creature flanking stylized tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th–9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sash or towel

Sash or towel

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) in the Shape of a Seed Jar (Tane-tsubo)

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) in the Shape of a Seed Jar (Tane-tsubo)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Chalice cover

Chalice cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 38 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 306238 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-30 03:32 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.