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 “Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 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.
Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Joseph Bailey Sr., American, d. 1898

Vase

Joseph Bailey Sr., American, d. 1898 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Greenwood Pottery Company

Vase

Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Title Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Vase, by Thomas Fletcher

Presentation Vase

Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Vase (One of a Pair), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Vase (One of a Pair)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase (One of a Pair), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Vase (One of a Pair)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Vase (One of a Pair), by Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796

Vase (One of a Pair)

Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca.1870–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

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

Public domainThe Met
Beaker-shaped vase, from a five-piece garniture

Beaker-shaped vase, from a five-piece garniture

Artist not stated in the record · 1662-1722

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase (One of a Pair), by Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796

Vase (One of a Pair)

Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca.1870–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model d’un Lit executé pour Monseigneur le Dauphin, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Model d’un Lit executé pour Monseigneur le Dauphin

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · ca. 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

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

Public domainThe Met
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 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. 1562 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. 1967834 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 2026-08-26 20:19 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.