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 jar with vertical handles” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:56 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 jar with vertical handles

Terracotta jar with vertical handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and cover

Jar and cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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 lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

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
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 deep bowl with vertical handles

Terracotta deep bowl with vertical handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century 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 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
Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small terracotta jar with four handles

Small terracotta jar with four handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) with vertical ring handles

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) with vertical ring handles

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves · ca. 275–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stoneware storage jar by David Drake (Dave the Potter), by David Drake, American, circa 1800 - circa 1870

Stoneware storage jar by David Drake (Dave the Potter)

David Drake, American, circa 1800 - circa 1870 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pithoid jar

Terracotta pithoid jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Syrup Jar, SYDACETSO

Syrup Jar, SYDACETSO

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Terracotta jar with three handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Tureen, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

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. 352 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 270449 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 16:56 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.