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 “Vase fragment in the shape of a monkey” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:36 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.
Vase fragment in the shape of a monkey

Vase fragment in the shape of a monkey

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils., by William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796

Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils.

William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796 · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825–1835

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

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta vase in the shape of a monkey

Terracotta vase in the shape of a monkey

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Sketches

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head, by Oxford Class of Head Vases

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head

Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Writer Vecei, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Writer Vecei

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Meissen Manufactory

Vase

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament, by Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796

Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament

Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Worcester factory

Vase

Worcester factory · ca. 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by A. Panier, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793

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. 18602 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 7484542 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 15:36 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.