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. 18 shown for “Wine jar with early serekh” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:48 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 jar with early serekh

Wine jar with early serekh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300–2960 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Ovoidal Tureen, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pelike (jar), by Somzée Painter

Terracotta pelike (jar)

Somzée Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Public domainThe Met
TART TARTAR

TART TARTAR

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble relief showing transport amphorae

Marble relief showing transport amphorae

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine vesssel (hu) with bird-shaped cover

Ritual wine vesssel (hu) with bird-shaped cover

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ritual wine container (pou)

Ritual wine container (pou)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200-1100 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Jar

Large Jar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 681 AH/1282–83 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Turquoise Jar

Large Turquoise Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of King Raneb

Stela of King Raneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2880 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glass amphoriskos with horizontal ribs

Glass amphoriskos with horizontal ribs

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), by Berlin Painter

Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)

Berlin Painter · ca. 490–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wine jar (Guan), Cizhou ware, by Chinese

Wine jar (Guan), Cizhou ware

Chinese · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Relief, filling jars with wine

Relief, filling jars with wine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1950 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 278845 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 06:48 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.