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. 19 shown for “Athamanta meum L.” — 47 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:23 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.
Tankard, by Cary Dunn

Tankard

Cary Dunn · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta meum L.

Athamanta meum L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard of Captain W. E. Cracraft, by James Morisset

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard of Captain W. E. Cracraft

James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta meum L.

Athamanta meum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1880 to Jul 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons, by Jean Fouquet

The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons

Jean Fouquet · ca. 1452–60

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta libanotis L.

Athamanta libanotis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta sicula L.

Athamanta sicula L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph of the Spring, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

Nymph of the Spring

Lucas Cranach the Younger · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta cretensis L.

Athamanta cretensis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph and Potiphar's wife, by Johann Jakob Frey the Elder

Joseph and Potiphar's wife

Johann Jakob Frey the Elder · 1700–52

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta cretensis L.

Athamanta cretensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /8/95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Last Judgment in an Initial C, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

Last Judgment in an Initial C

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1406–7

Public domainThe Met
Athamanta cretensis L.

Athamanta cretensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Athamanta cretensis L.

Athamanta cretensis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Athamanta cretensis L.

Athamanta cretensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Athamanta sicula L.

Athamanta sicula L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1856 to Jun 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Athamanta cretensis L.

Athamanta cretensis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Athamanta sicula L.

Athamanta sicula L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1841

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1290428 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 23:23 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.