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 Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:30 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 Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Stoneware storage jar by David Drake (Dave the Potter), by David Drake, American, circa 1800 - circa 1870

Stoneware storage jar by David Drake (Dave the Potter)

David Drake, American, circa 1800 - circa 1870 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Verse Jar), by David ("Dave") Drake, born ca. 1800-died after 1870

Untitled (Verse Jar)

David ("Dave") Drake, born ca. 1800-died after 1870 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar Made by “Dave”, by Drake, David

Jar Made by “Dave”

Drake, David · 1862-05-03

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

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

Public domainThe Met
Large Sealed Storage Jar

Large Sealed Storage Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Large storage jar with floral decoration

Large storage jar with floral decoration

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

Public domainThe Met
Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Untitled, by David Jarbour

Untitled

David Jarbour · 1825–31

Public domainThe Met
Storage Jar (Tsubo

Storage Jar (Tsubo

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Socorro black-on-white storage jar

Socorro black-on-white storage jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050–1100

Public domainThe Met
Large Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Large Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 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. 62 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. 45452 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 2026-08-28 20:30 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.