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 oinochoe (wine jug)” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:51 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 oinochoe (wine jug)

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
jug, wine

jug, wine

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Sydney Cluster

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Sydney Cluster · ca. 620–590 BCE

Public domainThe Met
jug, wine

jug, wine

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Chigi Group

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Chigi Group · ca. 625 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Water jug

Water jug

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Lotus-Cross Painter

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Lotus-Cross Painter · ca. 570–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Les Buveurs

Les Buveurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

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

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

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

Public domainThe Met
Trophée à Bachus, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Trophée à Bachus

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1775–76

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

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bacchanal

Bacchanal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

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

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century 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 oinochoe (jug), by Altenburg Class

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

Altenburg Class · ca. 515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (jug) with a seated boy

Terracotta oinochoe (jug) with a seated boy

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Trophy, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Design for a Trophy

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta conical lekythos-oinochoe (combination oil flask and jug)

Terracotta conical lekythos-oinochoe (combination oil flask and jug)

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century BCE–early 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dionysus with Panther, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Dionysus with Panther

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl), by Polyteleia Painter

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Two Frieze Designs

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · before 1666

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oinochoe, by Class of the Oxford Siren-Jug

Oinochoe

Class of the Oxford Siren-Jug · last quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baccus, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Baccus

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

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. 460 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. 3285 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 13:51 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.