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. 16 shown for “Terracotta alabastron (jar)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:02 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.
Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Alabastron

Alabastron

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half 6th century B.C

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Alabastron (Oil or Perfume Flask), by Unidentified (ancient Mediterranean)

Alabastron (Oil or Perfume Flask)

Unidentified (ancient Mediterranean) · 6th-5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Terracotta alabastron (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta squat alabastron (jar)

Terracotta squat alabastron (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta squat alabastron (jar)

Terracotta squat alabastron (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Berlin Painter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Berlin Painter · ca. 490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Princeton Group

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16), by Exekias

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16)

Exekias · ca. 540 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. 1547 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. 13572 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:02 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.