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 “Small Carinated Jar with Cloth Lid” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:12 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.
Small Carinated Jar with Cloth Lid

Small Carinated Jar with Cloth Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern

Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necessaire

Necessaire

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ointment jar with lid

Ointment jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic jar with lid

Cosmetic jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cosmetic jar with lid

Cosmetic jar with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for Lidded Jar

Design for Lidded Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libation jar with with lid

Libation jar with with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Public domainThe Met
Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case

Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small Jug sealed with Cloth

Small Jug sealed with Cloth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe, by Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015

17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe

Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid

Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scent bottle and lid

Scent bottle and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Sealed Storage Jar

Large Sealed Storage Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 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. 116 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. 352887 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 08:12 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.