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 “Tea jar with cover” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:41 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.
Tea jar with cover

Tea jar with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea jar with cover

Tea jar with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea jar with cover

Tea jar with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds, by Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds

Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea jar with cover

Tea jar with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, by Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854)

Tea ceremony water jar

Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea jar with cover

Tea jar with cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar

Tea ceremony water jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea jar with cover

Tea jar with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware jar, White Satsuma type

Satsuma ware jar, White Satsuma type

Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yellow; Tea Jar with Cover and Fragments of Brocade, by Kubo Shunman

Yellow; Tea Jar with Cover and Fragments of Brocade

Kubo Shunman · mid-1810s

Public domainThe Met
Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware

Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Urn, by Paul Revere Jr.

Tea Urn

Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Tea-leaf storage jar

Tea-leaf storage jar

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

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

Jar

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

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
Tea ceremony water jar, Kyushu-related ware

Tea ceremony water jar, Kyushu-related ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th-mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered jar

Covered jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 776 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. 275467 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 11:41 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.