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. 15 shown for “Large Ointment Jar with Lid” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:00 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.
Large Ointment Jar with Lid

Large Ointment Jar with Lid

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

Public domainThe Met
Ung: Basilicon

Ung: Basilicon

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ung: Santalum

Ung: Santalum

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment Jar

Ointment Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vng. Alaba strin

Vng. Alaba strin

Artist not stated in the record · 1600 - 1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment jar with lid

Ointment jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ointment Jar with Lid

Ointment Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ointment Jar of Sithathoryunet

Ointment Jar of Sithathoryunet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ointment jar of Sithathoryunet

Ointment jar of Sithathoryunet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ointment jar and lid naming Thutmose III

Ointment jar and lid naming Thutmose III

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

Public domainThe Met
Inscribed shoulder jar with cartouche of Thutmose III

Inscribed shoulder jar with cartouche of Thutmose III

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

Public domainThe Met
Bowl used as lid

Bowl used as lid

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–late 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Libation jar with with lid

Libation jar with with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Public domainThe Met
Bottle and lid naming Thutmose III

Bottle and lid naming Thutmose III

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

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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 273876 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:00 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.