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 “Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:27 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 amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amphoriskos (Two-Handled Flask), by Unidentified (ancient Mediterranean)

Amphoriskos (Two-Handled Flask)

Unidentified (ancient Mediterranean) · 3rd-1st century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a shell

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a shell

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Tipsy Tavener"

"Tipsy Tavener"

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Book-form

Book-form

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass amphoriskos (flask)

Glass amphoriskos (flask)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Man with a Bird, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man with a Bird

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Distillation flask, by Jena Glasswork, Schott & Associates

Distillation flask

Jena Glasswork, Schott & Associates · after 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bird Hunt with Falcons, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Bird Hunt with Falcons

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Achilles Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company, by Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company

Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

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

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Nearchos · ca. 570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Ornamental Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphoriskos (oil flask)

Terracotta amphoriskos (oil flask)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Trophy Design

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass amphoriskos (flask)

Glass amphoriskos (flask)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos in the form of a boar

Terracotta askos in the form of a boar

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hunting Trophy, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Hunting Trophy

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1741

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. 1293 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 43840 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 10:27 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.