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. 16 shown for “Aurelio Lomi” — 44 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-11 04:17 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.
The Gathering of Manna, by Aurelio Lomi

The Gathering of Manna

Aurelio Lomi

Public domainThe Met
Dupineta hensii (Cogn.) Ver.-Lib. & G. Kadereit

Dupineta hensii (Cogn.) Ver.-Lib. & G. Kadereit

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin in Glory with Angels, by Aurelio Lomi

Virgin in Glory with Angels

Aurelio Lomi · 1556–1622

Public domainThe Met
Clappertonia ficifolia (Willd.) Decne.

Clappertonia ficifolia (Willd.) Decne.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Banquet of Ahasuerus and Esther, by Aurelio Lomi

The Banquet of Ahasuerus and Esther

Aurelio Lomi · 1600–17

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella cathedrifolia Spring

Selaginella cathedrifolia Spring

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Hyacinth Receiving the Dominican Habit, by Aurelio Lomi

Saint Hyacinth Receiving the Dominican Habit

Aurelio Lomi · 1556–1622

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella cathedrifolia Spring

Selaginella cathedrifolia Spring

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Selaginella zechii Hieron.

Selaginella zechii Hieron.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ixora pendula Jack

Ixora pendula Jack

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valerianella woodsiana Walf

Valerianella woodsiana Walf

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitex pinnata L.

Vitex pinnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lithospermum incisum Lehm.

Lithospermum incisum Lehm.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dipterocarpus apterus Foxw. & Slooten

Dipterocarpus apterus Foxw. & Slooten

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garcinia eugeniifolia (Choisy) Wall. ex T. Anderson

Garcinia eugeniifolia (Choisy) Wall. ex T. Anderson

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maclurodendron porteri (Hook. f.) T.G. Hartley

Maclurodendron porteri (Hook. f.) T.G. Hartley

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1949

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 212 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-11 04:17 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.