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. 18 shown for “Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:27 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 fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century 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 fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 460–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Water jug

Water jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Memory Jug with Glass Eye, Advertising Buttons, and Shells), by Unidentified

Untitled (Memory Jug with Glass Eye, Advertising Buttons, and Shells)

Unidentified · ca. 1890-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 460–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman), by Angelo Leone

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)

Angelo Leone · after 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 460–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le Buveur (the Drinker)

Le Buveur (the Drinker)

Artist not stated in the record · 1770s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter of the sixth century BCE

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug), by Group of the Early Olpai

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Group of the Early Olpai · 1st half of 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 460–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th 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. 468 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. 2881074 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:27 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.