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. 18 shown for “Two-handled globular jar” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:41 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.
Two-handled globular jar

Two-handled globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Brass Handle

Knife with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handled Jar

Two-Handled Jar

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Teapot, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Teapot

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Restorers' Jar

Restorers' Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1064–1058 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle

Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amphora

Amphora

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass two-handled jar

Glass two-handled jar

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globular jar

Globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globular jar

Globular jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2750–2649 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Globular necked jar

Globular necked jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Two-handled Jar

Two-handled Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Two-handled Jar

Two-handled Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta globular flask

Terracotta globular flask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta two-handled jar

Terracotta two-handled jar

Artist not stated in the record · early 7th–mid 7th century BC

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. 319 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. 175 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:41 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.