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. 23 shown for “Chenopodium murale L.” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:15 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.
Mural, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Mural

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 500–550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Kai Khusrau Crosses the Sea", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Kai Khusrau Crosses the Sea", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Suhrab Slain by Rustam", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Suhrab Slain by Rustam", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Death of Farud", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Death of Farud", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red jasper ring stone

Red jasper ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cider, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Cider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sackville Children, by John Hoppner

The Sackville Children

John Hoppner · 1796

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The River, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The River

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stone marker, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Stone marker

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–450 CE

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Shepherd's Song, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Shepherd's Song

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chenopodium murale L.

Chenopodium murale L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

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. 140 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1293019 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 04:15 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.