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. 22 shown for “Jar with Cover (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:39 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 with Cover (one of a pair)

Jar with Cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Jar (One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Jar (One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with Cover (one of a pair)

Jar with Cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Tureen, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with cover (one of a pair), by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Jar with cover (one of a pair)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Jar with cover (one of a pair), by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Jar with cover (one of a pair)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

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

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (one of a pair), by I H

Vase with cover (one of a pair)

I H · 1675–76

Public domainThe Met
Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by John M. Safford

Jar

John M. Safford · 1838

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies, by Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies

Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook of textile swatches, by Morrisania Silk Mill, Bronx, New York, NY

Scrapbook of textile swatches

Morrisania Silk Mill, Bronx, New York, NY · ca. 1900

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
Casket

Casket

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. 9311 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. 3993182 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 2026-09-03 19:39 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.