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 “Jug in the shape of a woman's head” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:50 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.
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug in the shape of a woman's head

Jug in the shape of a woman's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cathedral in Mexico with Figure, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cathedral in Mexico with Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1890–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Christopher Dresser

Jug

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Drawing

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure Studies, by Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756

Figure Studies

Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756 · 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Christopher Dresser

Jug

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cream jug and cover with tray

Cream jug and cover with tray

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Recollection of a View from a Hill near Cartago, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Recollection of a View from a Hill near Cartago, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head, by Oxford Class of Head Vases

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head

Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Covered Milk Jug

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

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
Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman), by Angelo Leone

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)

Angelo Leone · after 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Alcove with the Daughters of Pelias Assassinating their Father, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Alcove with the Daughters of Pelias Assassinating their Father

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1658–1703

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. 7064 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. 7484488 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 01:50 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.