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. 14 shown for “Wine ewer with stopper (Tokkuri)” — 44 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:39 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.
Wine ewer with stopper (Tokkuri)

Wine ewer with stopper (Tokkuri)

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
No. 176, by Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917

No. 176

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with stopper (part of a service)

Ewer with stopper (part of a service)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–50

Public domainThe Met
No. 103, by Theophil Hansen, Dutch, 1813 - 1891

No. 103

Theophil Hansen, Dutch, 1813 - 1891 · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
No. 132, by Professor Josef Storck, Austria, 1830 - 1902

No. 132

Professor Josef Storck, Austria, 1830 - 1902 · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
No. 98, by Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917

No. 98

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
No. 30, by Josef Lobmeyr Senior, Austrian, 1792 - 1855

No. 30

Josef Lobmeyr Senior, Austrian, 1792 - 1855 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
No. 2, by Josef Lobmeyr Senior, Austrian, 1792 - 1855

No. 2

Josef Lobmeyr Senior, Austrian, 1792 - 1855 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats, by Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891

Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats

Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
No. 100, by Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917

No. 100

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
No. 104, by Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917

No. 104

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type

Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine, by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine

Taizan Yohei · 1800-1868

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 249849 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 06:39 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.