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. 20 shown for “Jar with coin pattern” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:06 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 coin pattern

Jar with coin pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid, by De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels)

Jar and lid

De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) · 1673–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Jar and lid

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern

Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with rope pattern

Jug with rope pattern

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Caroline Virginia (Rich) McGuffey, American, 1839 – 1905

Vase

Caroline Virginia (Rich) McGuffey, American, 1839 – 1905 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dinar of Sanjar

Dinar of Sanjar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 493 AH/1099 CE

Public domainThe Met
Scent bottle and lid

Scent bottle and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dinar of Tughril (r. 1040–63)

Dinar of Tughril (r. 1040–63)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 444 AH/1052–53 CE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
with Coin and Stamp Compartment

with Coin and Stamp Compartment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–4th century

Public domainThe Met
Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90s

Public domainThe Met
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–14th century

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. 524 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. 576407 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:06 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.