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 with elephant head handles and floral decoration” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:30 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 with elephant head handles and floral decoration

Vase with elephant head handles and floral decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Vase

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1810–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Title Page

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
POELE Russe, décoré de Cariatides, et surmonté d’un vase antique, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE Russe, décoré de Cariatides, et surmonté d’un vase antique

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with San Millán, by Master Engelram and his son Redolfo

Panel with San Millán

Master Engelram and his son Redolfo · 1060–80

Public domainThe Met
POELE Russe, décoré de Cariatides, et surmonté d’un vase antique, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE Russe, décoré de Cariatides, et surmonté d’un vase antique

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Pedestal with Female Figures Supporting a Vase, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Pedestal with Female Figures Supporting a Vase

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Marly, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Vase de marbre blanc à Marly

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Century Vase, by Karl L. H. Müller

Century Vase

Karl L. H. Müller · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Marly, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Vase de marbre blanc à Marly

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble strigilated vase with snake handles

Marble strigilated vase with snake handles

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations), by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze basket vase with swinging handles

Bronze basket vase with swinging handles

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Title Page

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves · ca. 275–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Trianon, by François Girardon, French, 1628 – 1715

Vase de marbre blanc à Trianon

François Girardon, French, 1628 – 1715 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by François Voisin, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1786-1789

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. 178 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1571991 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 07:30 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.