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 “Pitcher decorated with ibexes” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 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.
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats, by Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891

Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats

Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher decorated with ibexes

Pitcher decorated with ibexes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Ernest Chaplet, French, 1935 – 1909

Pitcher

Ernest Chaplet, French, 1935 – 1909 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by J. Eberly and Company

Pitcher

J. Eberly and Company · 1892–1903

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Ernest Chaplet, French, 1935 – 1909

Pitcher

Ernest Chaplet, French, 1935 – 1909 · 1882–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–65

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–65

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Jonas & Walley

Pitcher

Jonas & Walley · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–65

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey

Pitcher

Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey · 1889–1906

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Pitcher

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1877–1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pitcher

Design for a Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Tiffany & Co.

Pitcher

Tiffany & Co. · 1874–75

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Robert and William Wilson

Pitcher

Robert and William Wilson · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Burette, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Burette

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

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. 189 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 276346 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-03 17:20 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.