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 equestrian figure in landscape” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:01 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 equestrian figure in landscape

Vase with equestrian figure in landscape

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian, by Dogon blacksmith

Equestrian

Dogon blacksmith · 16th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Equestrian Figures with Figure on Ground, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Two Equestrian Figures with Figure on Ground

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Marc Schoelcher

Vase

Marc Schoelcher · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Gourd-Shaped Vase

Gourd-Shaped Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Public domainThe Met
Copy of the Portland Vase, by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British

Copy of the Portland Vase

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British · 1850–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Brazilian Landscape, by Frans Post

A Brazilian Landscape

Frans Post · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Design for Equestrian Monument of Charles III

Design for Equestrian Monument of Charles III

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Vase, by Thomas Fletcher

Presentation Vase

Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie with Figure in a Landscape, by Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772

Chinoiserie with Figure in a Landscape

Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · 1729-1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation vase, by New England Glass Company

Presentation vase

New England Glass Company · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Figures, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

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

Vase

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Two Panel Designs, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Panel Designs

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie with Seated Figure in a Landscape, by Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772

Chinoiserie with Seated Figure in a Landscape

Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · 1738-1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Lecce Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Lecce Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Marc Schoelcher

Vase

Marc Schoelcher · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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. 17801 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 7463767 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 2026-08-29 08:01 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.