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 “jug, wine” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:36 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.
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
jug, wine

jug, wine

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze jug

Bronze jug

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

Public domainThe Met
jug, wine

jug, wine

Artist not stated in the record

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
Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

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
Les Buveurs

Les Buveurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Dionysus with Panther, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Dionysus with Panther

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Sydney Cluster

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Sydney Cluster · ca. 620–590 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Frieze Designs, by Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682

Two Frieze Designs

Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · before 1666

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a satyr for attachment to a jug

Head of a satyr for attachment to a jug

Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Trophy, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Design for a Trophy

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Berenike II

Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Berenike II

Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baccus, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Baccus

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine jug

Wine jug

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Baccus, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Baccus

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Chigi Group

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Chigi Group · ca. 625 BCE

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
Terracotta Banquet Group

Terracotta Banquet Group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bacchanal

Bacchanal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Claret jug, by Apsley Pellatt

Claret jug

Apsley Pellatt · 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash, by William Fountain, English

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash

William Fountain, English · 1806

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. 90 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. 2892 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 11:36 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.