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 vase fragment with relief of Minerva” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 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 vase fragment with relief of Minerva

Terracotta vase fragment with relief of Minerva

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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

Vase

The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamented Gueridon Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Ornamented Gueridon Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Andokides

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Mythological or Biblical Scene; Juno and Jove Enthroned with Three Fates; Three Graces with Apollo and Minerva; Sculptural Relief and Obelisk, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Mythological or Biblical Scene; Juno and Jove Enthroned with Three Fates; Three Graces with Apollo and Minerva; Sculptural Relief and Obelisk

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · Century: 19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Copy of the Portland Vase, by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British

Copy of the Portland Vase

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British · 1850–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta two-handled vase

Terracotta two-handled vase

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs After Architecture, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs After Architecture

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase fragment with griffin

Terracotta vase fragment with griffin

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of paneling

Fragment of paneling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary terracotta relief with two horses from a vase

Fragmentary terracotta relief with two horses from a vase

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

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece Designs, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Chimneypiece Designs

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), by Hieron

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Hieron · ca. 480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Clock, by Unknown

Design for Clock

Unknown · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase fragment

Terracotta vase fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5 BCE–40 CE

Public domainThe Met
Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), by Metope Painter

Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

Metope Painter · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase with relief decoration

Terracotta vase with relief decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of the 2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

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. 16772 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2907068 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-03 08:38 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.