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. 21 shown for “Lime Container with Figural Handles” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 10:56 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.
Lime Container with Figural Handles

Lime Container with Figural Handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Kylix

Kylix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poporo (lime container) with female figures, by Quimbaya artist(s)

Poporo (lime container) with female figures

Quimbaya artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Urn, by Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1749 – 1760

Urn

Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1749 – 1760 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lime container, by Wari artist(s)

Lime container

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Lime-Burner, by James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903

The Lime-Burner

James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903 · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lime container in the shape of a captive, by Wari artist(s)

Lime container in the shape of a captive

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Teapot and cover, by John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780

Teapot and cover

John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Anthropomorphic Lime Container

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle, by Mortimer & Hunt

Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle

Mortimer & Hunt · Handle ca. 1710; blade ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
knife

knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle in the shape of a feline, by Wari artist(s)

Bottle in the shape of a feline

Wari artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Ornately Engraved Handle

Fork with Ornately Engraved Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with deer, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with deer

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait Head Bottle

Portrait Head Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

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. 279 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. 340432 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 10:56 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.