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 “Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:11 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.
Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

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

Public domainThe Met
Cream jug and cover with tray

Cream jug and cover with tray

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Milk Jug (Pot à Lait à Trois Pieds), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Milk Jug (Pot à Lait à Trois Pieds)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos

Aryballos

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century to 6th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neck of a Wide-Mouthed Hathor Jar

Neck of a Wide-Mouthed Hathor Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper Portion of a Blue-painted Hathor Jar

Upper Portion of a Blue-painted Hathor Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
mask

mask

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage Jar Embossed with the Hathor Emblem

Storage Jar Embossed with the Hathor Emblem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin with jug, by Meissen Manufactory

Harlequin with jug

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
White panel with repeating face pattern by Moshood, by Moshood, Nigerian American

White panel with repeating face pattern by Moshood

Moshood, Nigerian American · 1980s-1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with painted decoration

Jug with painted decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 30 B.C.– A.D. 364

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE

Public domainThe Met
White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family, by S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family

S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glass jug

Glass jug

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

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. 417 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. 122 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 2026-08-28 21:11 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.