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 “Seated Prisoner Single Spout Bottle” — 55 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 19:53 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.
Seated Prisoner Single Spout Bottle

Seated Prisoner Single Spout Bottle

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

Public domainThe Met
Vessel, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Vessel

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1879–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with seated figure, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with seated figure

Moche artist(s) · 200 CE–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle

Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with seated figure, by Nasca artist(s)

Bottle with seated figure

Nasca artist(s) · 1–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bottle

Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fox Warrior Bottle

Fox Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior Bottle

Warrior Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Double-chambered bottle, by Wari artist(s)

Double-chambered bottle

Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with deer, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with deer

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bottle with fox head, by Moche artist(s)

Bottle with fox head

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bridge and Spout Bottle with Seated Prisoner

Bridge and Spout Bottle with Seated Prisoner

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup Spout Bottle with Seated Figure

Stirrup Spout Bottle with Seated Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Spectacled Bear Bottle

Spectacled Bear Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 37522 matched · 40 examined · 35 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 2026-09-05 19:53 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.