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 immortals” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 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 immortals

Jar with immortals

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with immortals

Jar with immortals

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a bowl, two jars, flowers, and fruit

Tapestry: a bowl, two jars, flowers, and fruit

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar with immortals

Covered jar with immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Charioteer, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Medal of Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Italian Republic, verso; Hebe Gives Immortality to Hercules's Charioteer

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

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

Jar

John M. Safford · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Female immortal with a basket

Female immortal with a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Immortals, by Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近

Immortals

Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近 · ca. 1620s–30s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

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

Untitled

Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

Public domainThe Met
netsuke

netsuke

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stand

Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1400

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · first half of 8th 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
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. 3997 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. 258938 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-03 17:20 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.