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 with covers” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:02 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 with covers

Pair of urns with covers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

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 with hunting scenes, by Pierre-Jules Mêne

Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes

Pierre-Jules Mêne · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Urn (One of a Pair), by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Urn (One of a Pair)

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

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

Tea Urn

Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Urn (One of a Pair), by Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries

Urn (One of a Pair)

Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alabaster cinerary urn

Alabaster cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks

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

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

Urn with Assyrian scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Coffee Urn, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Coffee Urn

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · ca. 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hot water urn, by Louisa Courtauld

Hot water urn

Louisa Courtauld · 1765–66

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies, by Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies

Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature urn with cover, by A. L. & W. L.

Miniature urn with cover

A. L. & W. L. · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Garden and Street Elevations of a Small Palace

Garden and Street Elevations of a Small Palace

Artist not stated in the record · 1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta canopic urn

Terracotta canopic urn

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of urns

Pair of urns

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble cinerary urn

Marble cinerary urn

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Cap streamers

Cap streamers

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass cinerary urn with lid

Glass cinerary urn with lid

Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair), by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair)

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid-18th century

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

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair), by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair)

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid-18th century

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. 1041 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. 2897384 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 22:02 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.