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 woman carrying a jar” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:42 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 woman carrying a jar

Terracotta woman carrying a jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bamboo Bridge at Buga, Colombia and Girl Carrying a Jar, Cartago, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853

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

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman), by Angelo Leone

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)

Angelo Leone · after 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16), by Exekias

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16)

Exekias · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le Jardin d'Armide [The Garden of Armida], by Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863

Le Jardin d'Armide [The Garden of Armida]

Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1854

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

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Woman Painter · ca. 420–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Preparatory Study for the Sculpture of Queen Leszczynska as Juno, by Guillaume Coustou, French, 1677 – 1746

Preparatory Study for the Sculpture of Queen Leszczynska as Juno

Guillaume Coustou, French, 1677 – 1746 · 1726–31

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pelike (jar), by Somzée Painter

Terracotta pelike (jar)

Somzée Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Entombment, after Jacopo Bassano

The Entombment, after Jacopo Bassano

Artist not stated in the record · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pelike (jar), by Polygnotos

Terracotta pelike (jar)

Polygnotos · ca. 450–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Verse Jar), by David ("Dave") Drake, born ca. 1800-died after 1870

Untitled (Verse Jar)

David ("Dave") Drake, born ca. 1800-died after 1870 · 1860

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

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Group E · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta female head

Terracotta female head

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eight Sacrificial Scenes, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Eight Sacrificial Scenes

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

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

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman Carrying a Basket, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Young Woman Carrying a Basket

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1879

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

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Douris · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a woman carrying a medical bag

Tintype of a woman carrying a medical bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Painter of the Geneva Orestes

Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Painter of the Geneva Orestes · ca. 360–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Beach Scene with Women Carrying Baskets, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Beach Scene with Women Carrying Baskets, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 430–420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing: Sketch of a woman walking and carrying a basket

Drawing: Sketch of a woman walking and carrying a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

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. 183 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. 1787551 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 20:42 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.