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 rim from a vase with bands and dots in circles” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:36 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 rim from a vase with bands and dots in circles

Terracotta rim from a vase with bands and dots in circles

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with bands and dots

Terracotta rim fragment with bands and dots

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

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Vase, by Thomas Fletcher

Presentation Vase

Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vessel fragment with net pattern and dots within circles

Terracotta vessel fragment with net pattern and dots within circles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923

Vase

Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · 1902–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim and upper body fragment with concentric circles (or spiral?) and bands

Terracotta rim and upper body fragment with concentric circles (or spiral?) and bands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim of a cup with fern pattern and bands

Terracotta rim of a cup with fern pattern and bands

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

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim of a cup with spirals and bands

Terracotta rim of a cup with spirals and bands

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vessel fragment with rows of dots and band

Terracotta vessel fragment with rows of dots and band

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

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with quirks and bands

Terracotta rim fragment with quirks and bands

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

Public domainThe Met
Alabastron

Alabastron

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half 6th century B.C

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with cross-hatching and bands

Terracotta rim fragment with cross-hatching and bands

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

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a cup with spiral and bands

Terracotta fragment of a cup with spiral and bands

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim of a cup with spirals and band

Terracotta rim of a cup with spirals and band

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Designs for Nine Bands for Bases

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 5157 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7483727 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 2026-08-27 06:36 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.