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. 12 shown for “'Abdullah Bukhari” — 34 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 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.
"Two Nightingales in a Rose Bush", Double-Sided Illustrated Leaf from an Ottoman Album, by 'Abdullah Bukhari

"Two Nightingales in a Rose Bush", Double-Sided Illustrated Leaf from an Ottoman Album

'Abdullah Bukhari · ca. 1725–45

Public domainThe Met
Crateva adansonii DC.

Crateva adansonii DC.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/4/29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyrus pashia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

Pyrus pashia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/4/29 to 3/11/29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn.

Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/4/29 to 21/12/29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meriones crassus

Meriones crassus

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dolichos sericeus E. Mey.

Dolichos sericeus E. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubroshorea sp.

Rubroshorea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/3/34

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maesa ramentacea (Roxb.) A. DC.

Maesa ramentacea (Roxb.) A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucas mollis Baker

Leucas mollis Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meriones libycus

Meriones libycus

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gymnacranthera farquhariana var. eugeniifolia (A. DC.) R.T.A. Schouten

Gymnacranthera farquhariana var. eugeniifolia (A. DC.) R.T.A. Schouten

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/7/53

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tectaria stenosemioides (Alderw.) C. Chr.

Tectaria stenosemioides (Alderw.) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Dec 1968

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 33 matched · 33 examined · 13 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 19:21 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.