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 collar-necked jar with two handles” — 64 records examined, 26 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.
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
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 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
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913

Jug

George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913 · 1869–72

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
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

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
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

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
Traveling Cutlery Set with Antler Handle

Traveling Cutlery Set with Antler Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos

Lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos

Lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances

Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jar with vertical handles

Terracotta jar with vertical handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Banshan type jar

Banshan type jar

Artist not stated in the record · 5000-2000 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta deep bowl with two vertical handles

Terracotta deep bowl with two vertical handles

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

Public domainThe Met
Banshan type jar

Banshan type jar

Artist not stated in the record · 5000-2000 BCE

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. 1081 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 53 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 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.