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 Winged Animals over Waves” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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 Winged Animals over Waves

Jar with Winged Animals over Waves

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sun Emerging over Ocean with Waves, by William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

Sun Emerging over Ocean with Waves

William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Bowl with Winged Animals among Waves

Altar Bowl with Winged Animals among Waves

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Bending over a trestle with water jar, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Bending over a trestle with water jar

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1885-07-21

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with birds and animals

Beaker with birds and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Japanese Cranes Over Waves, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Japanese Cranes Over Waves

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Erotes and Animals

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–13

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished, by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sun over Waves and Cliffs, by William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

Sun over Waves and Cliffs

William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flims Room

The Flims Room

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacred animal mummy of an ibis inside a jar

Sacred animal mummy of an ibis inside a jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400 BCE–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
V.PET TORA

V.PET TORA

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar in the form of a bird, by R. W. Martin and Brothers

Jar in the form of a bird

R. W. Martin and Brothers · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ọ́bà with Sacrificial Animals from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand), by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Ọ́bà with Sacrificial Animals from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Title Page

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1741

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anubis Fetish (Imiut)

Anubis Fetish (Imiut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Pennant-Winged Night-Jar, Plate 5 from Birds of Western Africa

Pennant-Winged Night-Jar, Plate 5 from Birds of Western Africa

Artist not stated in the record · 1837

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. 262 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1416492 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.