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. 17 shown for “Painter of the Berlin Hydria” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:44 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.
Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Berlin Hydria

Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Berlin Hydria · ca. 460–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hydrias vithersi

Hydrias vithersi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Troilos Painter

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Troilos Painter · ca. 490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hydrias canescens

Hydrias canescens

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Berlin Painter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Berlin Painter · ca. 490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hydrias vitripuncta

Hydrias vitripuncta

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), by Berlin Painter

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Berlin Painter · ca. 490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apanteles hydriae

Apanteles hydriae

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), by Berlin Painter

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Berlin Painter · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Berlin Wall fragment, Berlin, Germany, 1961

Berlin Wall fragment, Berlin, Germany, 1961

Artist not stated in the record · 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Berlin Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Berlin Painter · ca. 480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Iliupersis Painter

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Iliupersis Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, by Euphiletos Painter

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Euphiletos Painter · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Brandenburg Gate, by Carl von Scheidt

The Brandenburg Gate

Carl von Scheidt · 1816

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Painter of the Cambridge Hydria

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Painter of the Cambridge Hydria · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hydria, by Creusa Painter

Hydria

Creusa Painter · ca. 400–375 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Hesperides Painter

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Hesperides Painter · early 4th century 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. 1112 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. 2988066 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 13:44 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.