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. 22 shown for “Shouldered jar with two lugs” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:07 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.
Shouldered jar with two lugs

Shouldered jar with two lugs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3650–3300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tea-leaf storage jar with four lugs and "Sobokai" mark

Tea-leaf storage jar with four lugs and "Sobokai" mark

Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Chantilly

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Squat jar with two lugs

Squat jar with two lugs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2649–2630 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Satchel for letter carriers

Satchel for letter carriers

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1943-1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Squat jar with lug handles

Squat jar with lug handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3850–2960 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by New York Nessos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
1915 Mauser Gewehr 98 Bolt Action Rifle, by Mauser, German, founded 1811

1915 Mauser Gewehr 98 Bolt Action Rifle

Mauser, German, founded 1811 · 1915-1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar (Guan)

Jar (Guan)

Artist not stated in the record · Machang phase, ca. 2350–2050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917

Jar

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · ca. 1888–97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Public domainThe Met
Karatsu ware tea-leaf storage jar with five loop lugs

Karatsu ware tea-leaf storage jar with five loop lugs

Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with two handles

Jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

Public domainThe Met
Two models, 8 drinking from water jar, on shoulder of 1, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Two models, 8 drinking from water jar, on shoulder of 1

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small High-shouldered Jar with Lugs

Small High-shouldered Jar with Lugs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2650 B.C.

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
Two-handled Jar

Two-handled Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tamba ware tea-leaf storage jar

Tamba ware tea-leaf storage jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass jar with two handles (amphora)

Glass jar with two handles (amphora)

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Marble vase with high foot and four lug handles

Marble vase with high foot and four lug handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3000–2800 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. 158 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. 282241 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:07 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.