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. 13 shown for “Calcareoboea coccinea C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li” — 41 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:43 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.
Beaker with Apes

Beaker with Apes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Calcareoboea coccinea C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Calcareoboea coccinea C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raphiocarpus longipedunculatus (C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li) B.L. Burtt

Raphiocarpus longipedunculatus (C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li) B.L. Burtt

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raphiocarpus longipedunculatus (C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li) B.L. Burtt

Raphiocarpus longipedunculatus (C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li) B.L. Burtt

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1985 to 10 Oct 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
cf. Primulina carnosifolia (C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li) Y.Z. Wang

cf. Primulina carnosifolia (C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1985 to 15 Sep 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clinopodium discolor (Diels) C.Y. Wu & S.J. Hsuan ex H.W. Li

Clinopodium discolor (Diels) C.Y. Wu & S.J. Hsuan ex H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/7/17

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Mosla scabra (Thunb.) C.Y. Wu & H.W. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1879

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 391886 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-08 19:43 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.