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 lion-head handles” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:37 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, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

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
Vase with lion-head handles

Vase with lion-head handles

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Ornamental Vase Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Daniel Marot the Elder

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 1 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

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

Presentation Vase

Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674

Ornamental Vase Design

Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by George E. Ohr

Vase

George E. Ohr · 1900

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Arabesque Ornament Design

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by George E. Ohr

Vase

George E. Ohr · ca. 1895–96

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

Ornamental Vase Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1772-1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Tiffany & Co.

Vase

Tiffany & Co. · 1900

Public domainThe Met
Vase (Plate 6 of a Series), by Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)

Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two bronze handles

Two bronze handles

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Ornamental Vase Design

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top), by Bolsena Group

Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top)

Bolsena Group · ca. 300–250 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Designs, by Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century

Ornamental Vase Designs

Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta two-handled vase

Terracotta two-handled vase

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

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. 3128 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. 2254 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 2026-09-08 09:37 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.