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 pouring vessel (gong)” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:04 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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 pouring vessel (gong)

Wine pouring vessel (gong)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
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
Wine pouring vessel (Gong)

Wine pouring vessel (Gong)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Man Serving Wine from a Vessel, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

Man Serving Wine from a Vessel, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

Artist not stated in the record · 1582

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine Pouring Vessel (Gong)

Wine Pouring Vessel (Gong)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine pouring vessel (Gong)

Wine pouring vessel (Gong)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strainer

Strainer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seau à rafraichir executé pour M. le Duc en 1723 [Wine Cooler made for M. le Duc (Louis-Henri de Bourbon in 1723], pl.. 58 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Seau à rafraichir executé pour M. le Duc en 1723 [Wine Cooler made for M. le Duc (Louis-Henri de Bourbon in 1723], pl.. 58 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated Jug with Feline-Head Handle naming Atumemtaneb

Decorated Jug with Feline-Head Handle naming Atumemtaneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver jug with gold rim

Silver jug with gold rim

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)

Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 1320–60

Public domainThe Met
The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)

The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)

Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 1320–60

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

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

Public domainThe Met
Banquet of the Gods, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Banquet of the Gods

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine vessel ( Zun)

Wine vessel ( Zun)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–10th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bacchus, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze situla (bucket) with swinging handles

Bronze situla (bucket) with swinging handles

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

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. 79 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 165227 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 10:04 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.