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 with Lion and Landscape Elements” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:43 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 Lion and Landscape Elements

Jar with Lion and Landscape Elements

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, by Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808

Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano

Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Elements

Jewelry Elements

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
C C RECT

C C RECT

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Drug Jar

Drug Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
The Lion Hunt

The Lion Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lion Hunt, by Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738

Lion Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature covered jar and “inkstone”

Miniature covered jar and “inkstone”

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Classical Ruins

Classical Ruins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunters in a Landscape, by Anonymous, 16th century

Hunters in a Landscape

Anonymous, 16th century · ca. 1575–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with Landscape, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Fountain with Landscape

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Lion, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Lion

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by New York Nessos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Daniel in the Lion's Den

Daniel in the Lion's Den

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16), by Exekias

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16)

Exekias · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th 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. 1259 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1534394 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 18:43 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.