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 chariot krater” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:12 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.
Terracotta chariot krater

Terracotta chariot krater

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Krater, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

A Krater

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta chariot krater

Terracotta chariot krater

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1230 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bell Krater

Bell Krater

Artist not stated in the record · 350–300 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta krater, by Hirschfeld Workshop

Terracotta krater

Hirschfeld Workshop · ca. 750–735 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Krater and Cameos, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design with Krater and Cameos

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Group of Boston 00.348

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum junghuhnianum Dozy & Molk.

Sphagnum junghuhnianum Dozy & Molk.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedw.) Wilson

Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedw.) Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1911 to 26 Apr 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine), by Oltos

Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine)

Oltos · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta krater, by Trachones Workshop

Terracotta krater

Trachones Workshop · ca. 725 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl

Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Persephone Painter

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Persephone Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Zameioscirpus muticus Dhooge & Goetgh.

Zameioscirpus muticus Dhooge & Goetgh.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/1/99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Lydos

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Lydos · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leucostegia pallida (Mett. ex Kuhn) Copel.

Leucostegia pallida (Mett. ex Kuhn) Copel.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Campylopus caudatus (Müll. Hal.) Mont.

Campylopus caudatus (Müll. Hal.) Mont.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedw.) Wilson

Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedw.) Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1911 to 26 Apr 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta krater

Terracotta krater

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

Public domainThe Met
Myurium rufescens (Reinw. & Hornsch.) M. Fleisch.

Myurium rufescens (Reinw. & Hornsch.) M. Fleisch.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1894

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. 1471 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. 813 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-30 05:12 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.