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. 19 shown for “Jar with Lid” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:52 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.
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Jar with Lid

Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with lid

Jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with Lid

Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with lid

Jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
GRANA TILLI

GRANA TILLI

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment Jar with Lid

Ointment Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment jar with lid

Ointment jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
TAMARINDI

TAMARINDI

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled Jar with Lid

Two-handled Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid

Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Large Ointment Jar with Lid

Large Ointment Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libation jar with with lid

Libation jar with with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Public domainThe Met
Canopic jar with a human-headed lid

Canopic jar with a human-headed lid

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 5314 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 260177 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:52 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.