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 “Bosanquet Painter” — 43 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Bosanquet Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Bosanquet Painter · ca. 440–430 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Spyridium phylicoides Reissek

Spyridium phylicoides Reissek

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Bosanquet Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Bosanquet Painter · ca. 440–430 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cornus rugosa Lam.

Cornus rugosa Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Lilium philadelphicum L.

Lilium philadelphicum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potentilla simplex Michx.

Potentilla simplex Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desmodium canadense (L.) DC.

Desmodium canadense (L.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helianthemum canadense (L.) Michx.

Helianthemum canadense (L.) Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceanothus ovatus var. pubescens S. Watson

Ceanothus ovatus var. pubescens S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diervilla lonicera Mill.

Diervilla lonicera Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Physocarpus intermedius (Rydb.) C.K. Schneid.

Physocarpus intermedius (Rydb.) C.K. Schneid.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth

Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Liriodendron tulipifera L.

Liriodendron tulipifera L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equisetum x ferrissii Clute

Equisetum x ferrissii Clute

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

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. 12902 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 20:00 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.