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. 18 shown for “Bulas Group” — 46 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:31 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 miniature Panathenaic amphora, by Bulas Group

Terracotta miniature Panathenaic amphora

Bulas Group · ca. 400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Orthetrum villosovittatum

Orthetrum villosovittatum

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature Panathenaic amphora, by Bulas Group

Terracotta miniature Panathenaic amphora

Bulas Group · ca. 400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Setaria megaphylla (Steud.) Durieu & Schinz

Setaria megaphylla (Steud.) Durieu & Schinz

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta miniature Panathenaic amphora, by Bulas Group

Terracotta miniature Panathenaic amphora

Bulas Group · ca. 400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia inflata Rich.

Ruellia inflata Rich.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aryballos, by Bulas Group

Aryballos

Bulas Group · early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Manettia divaricata Wernham

Manettia divaricata Wernham

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alabastron, by Bulas Group

Alabastron

Bulas Group · early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Justicia boliviana Rusby

Justicia boliviana Rusby

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Schoolmistress, by Sèvres Manufactory

The Schoolmistress

Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1762

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia inflata Rich.

Ruellia inflata Rich.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chelonanthus acutangulus (Ruiz & Pav.) Gilg

Chelonanthus acutangulus (Ruiz & Pav.) Gilg

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tetrapterys crotonifolia A. Juss.

Tetrapterys crotonifolia A. Juss.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inga thibaudiana DC.

Inga thibaudiana DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmel.

Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmel.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth

Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Callicarpa sp.

Callicarpa sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1985

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 124450 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 22:31 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.