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 jug with horse's head in relief” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:41 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 with horse's head in relief

Terracotta jug with horse's head in relief

Artist not stated in the record · 480–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Water jug

Water jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by The Horse-Head Amphorae

Terracotta amphora (jar)

The Horse-Head Amphorae · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by Mintons

Platter

Mintons · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Horse Heads

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Skewer with Horse Head Terminal

Skewer with Horse Head Terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elderly king

Elderly king

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Aryballos

Aryballos

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)

Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 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 lekythos (oil flask), by Achilles Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eglinton, by W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854

Eglinton

W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Artist not stated in the record · 600–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), by New York Nessos Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah in the Fiery Chariot, by Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta cosmetic vase

Terracotta cosmetic vase

Artist not stated in the record · 4th quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nineveh, by Ridgway & Abington

Nineveh

Ridgway & Abington · ca. 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi

Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-handled jug with relief medallions

Three-handled jug with relief medallions

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 1281 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. 7464648 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 19:41 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.