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 “Wine jug (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:56 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 jug (one of a pair)

Wine jug (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Les Buveurs

Les Buveurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine jug (one of a pair)

Wine jug (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cooler (one of a pair), by William Lukin I

Wine cooler (one of a pair)

William Lukin I · 1716/17

Public domainThe Met
Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair), by Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766

Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair)

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Christopher Dresser

Jug

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
jug, wine

jug, wine

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
jug, wine

jug, wine

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bacchanal

Bacchanal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

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
Trophée à Bachus, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Trophée à Bachus

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1775–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass and Bottle Cooler (Verrière et Seau à Liqueur; One of a Pair), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Wine Glass and Bottle Cooler (Verrière et Seau à Liqueur; One of a Pair)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass Cooler (Verrière; One of a Pair), by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756

Wine Glass Cooler (Verrière; One of a Pair)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1776

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. 5206 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3968715 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 09:56 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.