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. 14 shown for “Adolphe Pierre Riffaut” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:51 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.
Mary, Queen of Scots, by Adolphe Pierre Riffaut

Mary, Queen of Scots

Adolphe Pierre Riffaut · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Pentace borneensis Pierre

Pentace borneensis Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1922 to Mar 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Rosa among the Brigands, by Adolphe Pierre Riffaut

Salvator Rosa among the Brigands

Adolphe Pierre Riffaut · after 1844

Public domainThe Met
Garcinia dives Pierre

Garcinia dives Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euonymus cochinchinensis Pierre

Euonymus cochinchinensis Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · May 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garcinia benthamii Pierre

Garcinia benthamii Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garcinia dives Pierre

Garcinia dives Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garcinia tetrandra Pierre

Garcinia tetrandra Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garcinia tetrandra Pierre

Garcinia tetrandra Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcostigma paniculata Pierre

Sarcostigma paniculata Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palaquium dasyphyllum Pierre ex Dubard

Palaquium dasyphyllum Pierre ex Dubard

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1922 to Mar 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payena acuminata (Blume) Pierre

Payena acuminata (Blume) Pierre

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1922 to Mar 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuphea utriculosa Koehne

Cuphea utriculosa Koehne

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuphea utriculosa Koehne

Cuphea utriculosa Koehne

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1893

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. 163 matched · 24 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 34684 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-02 22:51 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.