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. 16 shown for “Terracotta relief” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 00:11 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 relief

Terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE or later

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

Vase

The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amerique

Amerique

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta relief of a sphinx

Terracotta relief of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta relief head of a woman

Terracotta relief head of a woman

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta relief head of a woman

Terracotta relief head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta relief depicting a warrior

Terracotta relief depicting a warrior

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta relief of a reclining youth

Terracotta relief of a reclining youth

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 551 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. 5449 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 00:11 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.