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 volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) with stand” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:03 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 volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) with stand

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

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 430 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

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
Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp

Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Group of Boston 00.348

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

Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Tureen, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Persephone Painter

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

Persephone Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of terracotta volute-kraters (vases for mixing wine and water) with stands

Pair of terracotta volute-kraters (vases for mixing wine and water) with stands

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of terracotta volute-kraters (vases for mixing wine and water) with stands

Pair of terracotta volute-kraters (vases for mixing wine and water) with stands

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches with Figures, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches with Figures

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 1868 - May 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Lydos

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

Lydos · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Lion and the Fox, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

The Lion and the Fox

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl), by Polyteleia Painter

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for clock, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for clock

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Marlay Painter

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

Marlay Painter · ca. 430 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839

Drawing

Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Kekrops Painter

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

Kekrops Painter · ca. 410–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta fragment of a volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

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

Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand

Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

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

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 340–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain in a Park, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Fountain in a Park

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1790

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. 1047 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. 1609730 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 17:03 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.