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. 23 shown for “Jar Decorated with a Baby Monkey” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:45 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 Decorated with a Baby Monkey

Jar Decorated with a Baby Monkey

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3700–3450 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Monkey Holding Its Baby

Female Monkey Holding Its Baby

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by John M. Safford

Jar

John M. Safford · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of a white baby being held by a man, by Unidentified

Ambrotype of a white baby being held by a man

Unidentified · 1855-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Baby Rattle with Bust of a Baby in a Nightcap

Baby Rattle with Bust of a Baby in a Nightcap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1400

Public domainThe Met
Female Monkey with umbrella

Female Monkey with umbrella

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Twin Whistling Pot

Twin Whistling Pot

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Chantilly

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Paul Cushman

Jar

Paul Cushman · 1805–33

Public domainThe Met
Inkwell

Inkwell

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baby's cap

Baby's cap

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Plate

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1745–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Jar from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Thomas W. Commeraw

Jar

Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Public domainThe Met
Jar from Traveling Dressing Case, by Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case

Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

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. 856 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. 1897413 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 2026-09-03 17:45 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.