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 “Turkey Vessel” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:32 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.
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Cladocora caespitosa

Cladocora caespitosa

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cladocora caespitosa

Cladocora caespitosa

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer

Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
The Two Turkeys, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

The Two Turkeys

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turkey Vessel

Turkey Vessel

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated goddess with a child

Seated goddess with a child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta plate

Terracotta plate

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1268

Public domainThe Met
Vessel

Vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2700–2400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta footed dish

Terracotta footed dish

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vessel

Vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Fragment of a terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century 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. 225 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. 173492 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 05:32 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.