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 neck in shape of male head” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 15:50 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.
Jug neck in shape of male head

Jug neck in shape of male head

Artist not stated in the record · 750–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–18

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

Jug

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Bartmann jug

Bartmann jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Jug and stopper

Jug and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug, by Ennion

Glass jug

Ennion · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Water jug

Water jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jug

Glass jug

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

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
Bird-shaped vessel

Bird-shaped vessel

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Covered pitcher, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Covered pitcher

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass head flask

Glass head flask

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon’s head and wind chime

Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon’s head and wind chime

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon, by Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon

Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · 1885–86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cake Knife, by Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cake Knife

Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1886–87

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. 1380 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. 7485316 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-10 15:50 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.