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. 12 shown for “Bupleurum irregulare Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:25 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.
Bupleurum irregulare Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Bupleurum irregulare Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bupleurum irregulare Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Bupleurum irregulare Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bupleurum kurdicum Boiss.

Bupleurum kurdicum Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Onobrychis pallida Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Onobrychis pallida Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus cretaceus Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Astragalus cretaceus Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvia macrochlamys Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Salvia macrochlamys Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stachys balansae Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Stachys balansae Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lactuca aculeata Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Lactuca aculeata Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bupleurum sulphureum Boiss. & Balansa in Boiss.

Bupleurum sulphureum Boiss. & Balansa in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stachys longespicata Boiss. & Kotschy ex Boiss.

Stachys longespicata Boiss. & Kotschy ex Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus libanoticus Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Astragalus libanoticus Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrophularia chlorantha Kotschy & Boiss. ex Boiss.

Scrophularia chlorantha Kotschy & Boiss. ex Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 1859

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 492 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 2026-09-04 12:25 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.