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. 24 shown for “Pair of urns” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:25 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.
Pair of urns and pedestals, by Robert Adam

Pair of urns and pedestals

Robert Adam · ca. 1780 with latter additions

Public domainThe Met
Pair of urns

Pair of urns

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Urns

Pair of Urns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Pair of firedogs (chenets)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Mausoleum

Design for a Mausoleum

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis XVI, by Philippe Laurent Roland

Louis XVI

Philippe Laurent Roland · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Covered Urns, by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Pair of Covered Urns

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · 1740–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of urns with covers

Pair of urns with covers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Samples, by Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA

Samples

Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn with Assyrian scenes

Urn with Assyrian scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of urns

Pair of urns

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of urns

Pair of urns

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Urn, by Paul Revere Jr.

Tea Urn

Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porphyry vessel with bearded masks

Porphyry vessel with bearded masks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st century BCE‒early 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn (one of a pair), by James Neale

Urn (one of a pair)

James Neale · 1778–80

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alabaster cinerary urn

Alabaster cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 9274 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. 2860634 matched · 40 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 20:25 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.