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 “Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:17 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.
Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1517

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile decorated with birds and flowers

Tile decorated with birds and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Inscription

Bowl with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

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

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Arabic Proverb

Bowl with Arabic Proverb

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow-green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow-green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Decorated in the 'Beveled Style'

Bowl Decorated in the 'Beveled Style'

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow, green, black glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow, green, black glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Bowl

Fragment of a Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow, green, black glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow, green, black glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

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

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

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

Public domainThe Met
Sherd, red body, white slip; green, brown, yellow striped glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip; green, brown, yellow striped glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Stylized Bird

Bowl with Stylized Bird

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Lidded Jar with Full Moon and Birds, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Lidded Jar with Full Moon and Birds

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Nathaniel Seymour

Untitled

Nathaniel Seymour · ca. 1790–1820

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Pitcher

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Pine Tree

Bottle with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1901

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. 99 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. 266231 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 13:17 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.