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. 22 shown for “Libation Vessel in the Form of a Conch” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 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.
Libation Vessel in the Form of a Conch

Libation Vessel in the Form of a Conch

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall fountain with cover and basin

Wall fountain with cover and basin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libation Vessel of Manuwai

Libation Vessel of Manuwai

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

Public domainThe Met
sauce boat

sauce boat

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved Conch with Lakshmi-Narayana

Carved Conch with Lakshmi-Narayana

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Fountain Design, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Rocaille Fountain Design

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libation Vessel

Libation Vessel

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for an altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Main Altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos in the form of a boar

Terracotta askos in the form of a boar

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch shell

Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch shell

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sacrifice of Noah, by Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647

Sacrifice of Noah

Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch shell

Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch shell

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Putto Blowing Conch, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Putto Blowing Conch

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Beaker

Covered Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–50 (vessel); ca. 1340–60 (mounts)

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Organ, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an Organ

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking), by Sotades Painter

Fragmentary terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)

Sotades Painter · ca. 460–450 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. 2918 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7483691 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:29 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.