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 with Dragon” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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 dragon

Jar with dragon

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Table de Cabinet., 6th Plate [Study for a Table], pl. 47 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Table de Cabinet., 6th Plate [Study for a Table], pl. 47 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon

Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with Dragon

Jar with Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar with dragon handles

Jar with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon jar

Dragon jar

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Escutcheon with Allusions to Egypt, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Design for an Escutcheon with Allusions to Egypt

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with dragon

Jar with dragon

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
U Defensivo

U Defensivo

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
VN DIFENSIVO

VN DIFENSIVO

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Jar

John M. Safford · 1838

Public domainThe Met
MASTICI

MASTICI

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with dragon handles

Jar with dragon handles

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Oyster jar from the Thomas Downing oyster house, by Unidentified

Oyster jar from the Thomas Downing oyster house

Unidentified · ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Dave (later recorded as David Drake)

Untitled

Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

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

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

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

Jar

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

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. 5217 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. 309511 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.