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 “Bao Shichen” — 42 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:51 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.
Two Riders, by Bao Shichen

Two Riders

Bao Shichen

Public domainThe Met
Elaphoglossum muscosum (Sw.) T. Moore

Elaphoglossum muscosum (Sw.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Wu Xizai

Landscape

Wu Xizai · dated 1858

Public domainThe Met
Alansmia senilis (Fée) Moguel & M. Kessler

Alansmia senilis (Fée) Moguel & M. Kessler

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendrocalamus sp.

Dendrocalamus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melpomene xiphopteroides (Liebm.) A.R. Sm. & R.C. Moran

Melpomene xiphopteroides (Liebm.) A.R. Sm. & R.C. Moran

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Symplocos cubensis Griseb.

Symplocos cubensis Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Streptocaulon juventas (Lour.) Merr.

Streptocaulon juventas (Lour.) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wibelia denticulata (Burm. f.) M. Kato & Tsutsumi

Wibelia denticulata (Burm. f.) M. Kato & Tsutsumi

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Epilobium coloratum Biehler

Epilobium coloratum Biehler

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fuchsia triphylla L.

Fuchsia triphylla L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fagerlindia armigera (K. Schum.) Tirveng.

Fagerlindia armigera (K. Schum.) Tirveng.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clusia domingensis Urb.

Clusia domingensis Urb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myriopteris aurea (Poir.) Grusz & Windham

Myriopteris aurea (Poir.) Grusz & Windham

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1968 to 7 Oct 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 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. 498 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 2026-09-01 00:51 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.