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 one-handled vase with strainer” — 64 records examined, 20 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 one-handled vase with strainer

Terracotta one-handled vase with strainer

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930

Vase

The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup), by Class of the One-handled Kantharoi

Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup)

Class of the One-handled Kantharoi · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Strainer, by Caughley Porcelain Factory, English, 1755 - 1814

Strainer

Caughley Porcelain Factory, English, 1755 - 1814 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (oil flask), by Nearchos

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Nearchos · ca. 570 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 one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Strainer

Strainer

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930

Vase

The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1905–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

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

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot

Coffeepot

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Ornamental Vase Design

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Ornamental Vase Design

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Ornamental Vase Design

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Designs, by Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century

Ornamental Vase Designs

Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta one-handled cup

Terracotta one-handled cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Ornamental Vase Design

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737-1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hemispherical strainer

Terracotta hemispherical strainer

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762

Ornamental Vase Design

Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1738-1749

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. 221 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 693 matched · 40 examined · 18 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.