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. 21 shown for “Terracotta footed dishie” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:28 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 footed dishie

Terracotta footed dishie

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

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

Terracotta krater

Hirschfeld Workshop · ca. 750–735 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

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
Vase, by The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930

Vase

The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta footed dish

Terracotta footed dish

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta footed bowl

Terracotta footed bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 750–600 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
King's attendant, by Lorenzo Mosca

King's attendant

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos

Lekythos

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta footed cup

Terracotta footed cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect), by Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA

Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect)

Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta footed bowl

Terracotta footed bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect), by Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA

Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect)

Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta footed bowl

Terracotta footed bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 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 footed bowl

Terracotta footed bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–625 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta footed bowl

Terracotta footed bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror

Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century 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. 1854 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. 16033 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:28 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.