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. 21 shown for “Jar with two handles” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
Terracotta collar-necked jar with two handles

Terracotta collar-necked jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar with Two Handles, by Unidentified

Jar with Two Handles

Unidentified · 100-200

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with two handles

Jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

Public domainThe Met
Jar with Two Handles, by Unidentified

Jar with Two Handles

Unidentified · 200-300

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze jar with two handles

Bronze jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Earthenware Jar, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Earthenware Jar

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earthenware Jar, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Earthenware Jar

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
jar

jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jar with two handles (amphora)

Glass jar with two handles (amphora)

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917

Jar

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · ca. 1888–97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with two handles

Jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3850–2960 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Jar with Two Handles

Miniature Jar with Two Handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Jar with Two Handles

Miniature Jar with Two Handles

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th 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. 3233 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. 284318 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 07:39 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.