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. 19 shown for “Large wine jar” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:53 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 wine jar

Large wine jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
TART TARTAR

TART TARTAR

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine container (pou)

Ritual wine container (pou)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200-1100 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Thomas W. Commeraw

Jar

Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Tureen, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
glass, wine

glass, wine

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Panneau avec un palais rococo composé de trois salles...des escaliers avec...une fontaine, 6th plate, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Panneau avec un palais rococo composé de trois salles...des escaliers avec...une fontaine, 6th plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem

Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Chantilly

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
S. DIAMORON

S. DIAMORON

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Jar

Large Jar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 681 AH/1282–83 CE

Public domainThe Met
Large Turquoise Jar

Large Turquoise Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine), by Oltos

Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine)

Oltos · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem

Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 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. 903 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. 44370 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:53 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.