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. 15 shown for “Two-handled storage jug (albarello) with crowned eagles” — 43 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 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 storage jug (albarello) with crowned eagles

Two-handled storage jug (albarello) with crowned eagles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–80

Public domainThe Met
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold Fragment with Musicians

Mold Fragment with Musicians

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
TRYPHERA MAGNA

TRYPHERA MAGNA

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
jar

jar

Artist not stated in the record · 18th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Jug

Design for a Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albarello

Albarello

Artist not stated in the record · 1600 - 1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913

Jug

George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913 · 1869–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
GRAS D, BECHO

GRAS D, BECHO

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
RAD D PINOG

RAD D PINOG

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by St. G..., active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

St. G..., active 18th century · 1772-1777

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 259644 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.