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. 20 shown for “Small terracotta jar with four handles” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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 terracotta jar with four handles

Small terracotta jar with four handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Imperial Wallcoverings Inc., American, founded 1901

Ceiling paper

Imperial Wallcoverings Inc., American, founded 1901 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

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
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta two-handled vase

Terracotta two-handled vase

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri bowl with cover

Potpourri bowl with cover

Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Jar with Four Handles, by Unidentified

Jar with Four Handles

Unidentified · 300-400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta collared jar with four lug handles

Terracotta collared jar with four lug handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2700–2200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Double-Handled Porringer (Écuelle), by Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757

Double-Handled Porringer (Écuelle)

Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757 · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (oil flask), by Nearchos

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Nearchos · ca. 570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Grave object, by Kongo artist

Grave object

Kongo artist · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small terracotta amphora (jar)

Small terracotta amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta collar-necked jar with two handles

Terracotta collar-necked jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta basin with four handles

Terracotta basin with four handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1190 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta jar with vertical handles

Terracotta jar with vertical handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century 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. 1292 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. 331616 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:00 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.