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 white inlay” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:00 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 white inlay

Terracotta vase fragment with white inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Yatsushiro ware vase with trumpet mouth

Yatsushiro ware vase with trumpet mouth

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with white inlay

Terracotta rim fragment with white inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Fragment of an inlay with fish design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine), by Oltos

Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine)

Oltos · ca. 520–510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Penthesilea Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (oil flask), by Nearchos

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Nearchos · ca. 570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

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

Vase

The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Achilles Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with hatched triangle

Terracotta rim fragment with hatched triangle

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with hatched form

Terracotta rim fragment with hatched form

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta rim fragment with running spiral

Terracotta rim fragment with running spiral

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

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. 16872 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 358695 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 13:00 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.