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. 12 shown for “Terracotta rim fragment with curvilinear motifs” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:55 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Terracotta rim fragment with curvilinear motifs

Terracotta rim fragment with curvilinear motifs

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

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta rim fragment with linear motifs

Terracotta rim fragment with linear motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta vessel fragment with curvilinear decoration

Terracotta vessel fragment with curvilinear decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta rim fragment with linear motifs

Terracotta rim fragment with linear motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta rim of a cup with polychrome motifs

Terracotta rim of a cup with polychrome motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta rim of a cup with polychrome motifs

Terracotta rim of a cup with polychrome motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Terracotta rim fragment with triglyph and metope motif

Terracotta rim fragment with triglyph and metope motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta vessel fragment with linear motifs

Terracotta vessel fragment with linear motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta vessel fragment with polychrome motifs

Terracotta vessel fragment with polychrome motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta vessel fragment with linear motifs

Terracotta vessel fragment with linear motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta rim and upper body fragment from a straight-sided cup with tortoiseshell ripple motif

Terracotta rim and upper body fragment from a straight-sided cup with tortoiseshell ripple motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1525 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. 3426 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:55 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.