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 globular jug” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:30 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 globular jug

Terracotta globular jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Water jug

Water jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904

Jug

Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2500–1900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos

Aryballos

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century to 6th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta globular flask

Terracotta globular flask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 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
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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 lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta globular flask

Terracotta globular flask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta globular flask

Terracotta globular flask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Achilles Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta globular cup, by Tityos Painter

Terracotta globular cup

Tityos Painter · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Globular vessel with twine impressions, by Middle Niger artist(s)

Globular vessel with twine impressions

Middle Niger artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–323 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. 1411 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. 2849 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 2026-08-29 00:30 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.