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. 15 shown for “Chuquibamba artist” — 43 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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.
Woman's Dress

Woman's Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Diplostephium hartwegii Hieron.

Diplostephium hartwegii Hieron.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag with fringe, by Chuquibamba artist

Bag with fringe

Chuquibamba artist · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Salpichroa tristis Walp.

Salpichroa tristis Walp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1909 to 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Chuquibamba artist

Tunic

Chuquibamba artist · 1460–1540

Public domainThe Met
Calceolaria cuneiformis subsp. xerophila Molau

Calceolaria cuneiformis subsp. xerophila Molau

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calceolaria cuneiformis subsp. xerophila Molau

Calceolaria cuneiformis subsp. xerophila Molau

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miconia sp.

Miconia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/7/95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ageratina sternbergiana (DC.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Ageratina sternbergiana (DC.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baccharis tola Phil.

Baccharis tola Phil.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oenothera rosea L'Hér. ex Aiton

Oenothera rosea L'Hér. ex Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smilax domingensis Willd.

Smilax domingensis Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper barbatum C. DC.

Piper barbatum C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manettia peruviana Standl.

Manettia peruviana Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diplostephium meyenii (Sch. Bip. ex Wedd.) S.F. Blake

Diplostephium meyenii (Sch. Bip. ex Wedd.) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 64118 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 03:27 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.