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. 23 shown for “Terracotta jug and lid” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:05 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 jug and lid

Terracotta jug and lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug and lid, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jug and lid

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Christopher Dresser

Jug

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75

Public domainThe Met
Apostles, by Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861

Apostles

Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jug with lid

Terracotta jug with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Jug, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Jug

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jug with lid

Terracotta jug with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nineveh, by Ridgway & Abington

Nineveh

Ridgway & Abington · ca. 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Milk Jug, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Covered Milk Jug

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16), by Exekias

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16)

Exekias · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738

Jug

Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca 1750

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
Covered Milk Jug, by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Covered Milk Jug

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1780

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
Water jug

Water jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta spouted jug with high handle and slip lid

Terracotta spouted jug with high handle and slip lid

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pitcher with lid

Terracotta pitcher with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 730 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Covered Milk Jug

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug) with lid

Terracotta oinochoe (jug) with lid

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Milk Jug with "Strohblumen" Pattern, by Tettau Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1794

Milk Jug with "Strohblumen" Pattern

Tettau Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1794 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Achilles Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Covered Milk Jug, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Covered Milk Jug

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

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. 1444 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. 1465195 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 2026-09-05 01:05 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.