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 “Ritual vessel (yi) with cover” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:22 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.
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual vessel (yi) with cover

Ritual vessel (yi) with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Food serving vessel (dui)

Food serving vessel (dui)

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual vessel

Ritual vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th century-early 10th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spouted Ritual Water Vessel (He)

Spouted Ritual Water Vessel (He)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual vessel (you) and cover

Ritual vessel (you) and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th-early 10th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with ritual scene, by Recuay artist(s)

Vessel with ritual scene

Recuay artist(s) · 200–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual vessel (kuei) with cover

Ritual vessel (kuei) with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine vessel (hu)

Ritual wine vessel (hu)

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine vesssel (hu) with bird-shaped cover

Ritual wine vesssel (hu) with bird-shaped cover

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual vessel with cover

Ritual vessel with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine container (hu)

Wine container (hu)

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Square lidded ritual wine container with lid (fangyi)

Square lidded ritual wine container with lid (fangyi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200-1050 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with ritual procession, by Chimú artist(s)

Earflare with ritual procession

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lidded ritual container (hu) with painted decoration

Lidded ritual container (hu) with painted decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine container (Hu)

Wine container (Hu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vessel (kuei) and cover with stand

Vessel (kuei) and cover with stand

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lidded square ritual wine vessel (fanghu) with painted decoration

Lidded square ritual wine vessel (fanghu) with painted decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yoke-form vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Yoke-form vessel

Maya artist(s) · 350–450 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds

Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100 BCE

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. 187 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 419780 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 13:22 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.