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 spouted cup, Vasiliki ware” — 49 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:51 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 spouted cup, Vasiliki ware

Terracotta spouted cup, Vasiliki ware

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 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 footed cup, Vasiliki ware

Terracotta footed cup, Vasiliki ware

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta beak-spouted jar, Vasiliki ware

Terracotta beak-spouted jar, Vasiliki ware

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Egg Cup, Teapot, and Goblet, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Egg Cup, Teapot, and Goblet

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta spouted conical bowl, white-on-dark ware

Terracotta spouted conical bowl, white-on-dark ware

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2400–2200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim, body and handle from a cup

Terracotta rim, body and handle from a cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware sake ewer

Satsuma ware sake ewer

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta carinated bridge-spouted jug

Terracotta carinated bridge-spouted jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four Incenseures

Four Incenseures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta side-spouted jug

Terracotta side-spouted jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Banko ware pouring bowl with two spouts

Banko ware pouring bowl with two spouts

Artist not stated in the record · 1740-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta side-spouted jug

Terracotta side-spouted jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta bridge-spouted jar

Terracotta bridge-spouted jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14118 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:51 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.