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 “Pyxis” — 33 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:45 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.
Pyxis

Pyxis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 950–75

Public domainThe Met
Pyxie (Pyxidanthera barbulata), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Pyxie (Pyxidanthera barbulata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Penthesilea Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pyxis, by Unidentified

Pyxis

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyxis (Cylindrical Container)

Pyxis (Cylindrical Container)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Spider Tortoise

Spider Tortoise

Artist not stated in the record · 2013:03:13

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyxis

Pyxis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spider Tortoise

Spider Tortoise

Artist not stated in the record · 04/05/2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spider Tortoise

Spider Tortoise

Artist not stated in the record · 04/05/2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Meidias Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble pyxis (box)

Marble pyxis (box)

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–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. 188 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 05:45 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.