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 “Pear-Shaped Vase” — 52 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Pear-Shaped Vase

Pear-Shaped Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase with Flowers, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Vase with Flowers

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rococo Ornament, by P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century

Design for Rococo Ornament

P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Mantel and Overmantel Mirror Design, by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century

A Mantel and Overmantel Mirror Design

Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · 1755–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Niloak

Vase

Niloak · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature alabaster pithoid jar

Miniature alabaster pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Vase

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Hand Fans, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Designs for Hand Fans

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1190 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Hand Fans, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Designs for Hand Fans

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass flask

Glass flask

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

Public domainThe Met
Caster and cover

Caster and cover

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Model Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Hand Fans, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Designs for Hand Fans

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Egg cups and stand

Egg cups and stand

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 36 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. 28 matched · 28 examined · 12 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.