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. 22 shown for “Charles Roth” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:22 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.
Clarinet in B-flat, by Charles Roth

Clarinet in B-flat

Charles Roth · 1840–45

Public domainThe Met
Gaillona rosea (Roth) A. Athanasiadis

Gaillona rosea (Roth) A. Athanasiadis

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles I, from the English Monarchs series, by Jean Dassier

Charles I, from the English Monarchs series

Jean Dassier · 1731–32

Public domainThe Met
Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth

Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Cladophora rupestris (Roth) Kütz.

Cladophora rupestris (Roth) Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · 1754

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela

Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela

Artist not stated in the record · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer (Ceres), by Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

Summer (Ceres)

Doccia Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela

Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà), by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · Mid-16th–late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth

Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille), by Vincennes Manufactory

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1753

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis gigantea Roth

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti with a Medallion, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Putti with a Medallion

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis gigantea Roth

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti with a Medallion, by Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Putti with a Medallion

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Public domainThe Met
Scagelothamnion turneri (Mert. ex Roth) A. Athanasiadis

Scagelothamnion turneri (Mert. ex Roth) A. Athanasiadis

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In the Studio, by Alfred Stevens

In the Studio

Alfred Stevens · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth

Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus rigidus Roth

Bromus rigidus Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulva clathrata (Roth) C. Agardh

Ulva clathrata (Roth) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1967

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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 139341 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 2026-09-02 15:22 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.