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. 15 shown for “Adrianus Kocx” — 43 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.
Tile with a bust of William III (1650–1702), by Adrianus Kocx

Tile with a bust of William III (1650–1702)

Adrianus Kocx · ca. 1694

Public domainThe Met
Sweetmeat Dish, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Sweetmeat Dish

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Daniel Marot the Elder

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
ewer, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

ewer

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower vase, by The "Greek A" Factory

Flower vase

The "Greek A" Factory · ca. 1695–1705

Public domainThe Met
Square Bottle, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Square Bottle

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · ca. 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658

Ewer

Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grewia flava DC.

Grewia flava DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porphyra umbilicalis Kütz.

Porphyra umbilicalis Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eustachys paspaloides (Vahl) Lanza & Mattei

Eustachys paspaloides (Vahl) Lanza & Mattei

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Digitaria eriantha Steud.

Digitaria eriantha Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthephora pubescens Nees

Anthephora pubescens Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthotrichum cupulatum Hoffm. ex Brid.

Orthotrichum cupulatum Hoffm. ex Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mabea pulcherrima Müll. Arg.

Mabea pulcherrima Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schmidtia pappophoroides Steud. ex J.A. Schmidt

Schmidtia pappophoroides Steud. ex J.A. Schmidt

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1953

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 73 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 04:24 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.