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 Depicting Three Spirited Peacocks” — 52 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:42 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 Depicting Three Spirited Peacocks

Jar Depicting Three Spirited Peacocks

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar (fragment)

Jar (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th-12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shroud of Hori

Shroud of Hori

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tamba ware tea-leaf storage jar

Tamba ware tea-leaf storage jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid, by De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels)

Jar and lid

De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) · 1673–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), by Habiballah of Sava

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Habiballah of Sava · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–95

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 11th-12th century

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

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar

Tea ceremony water jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Drug Jar

Drug Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
SPIRIT MURIAT AH

SPIRIT MURIAT AH

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case

Mirror Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
jar

jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1700 - 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Govardhan

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Tomb jar

Tomb jar

Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, by Paul Cézanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley

Paul Cézanne · 1882–85

Public domainThe Met
COCHLEAR

COCHLEAR

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Payag

"Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Payag · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Beaded Drawstring Purse With Peacock Design

Beaded Drawstring Purse With Peacock Design

Artist not stated in the record · Early 20th 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. 12 matched · 12 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. 98049 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 05:42 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.