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 “Cissus vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:31 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.
Candlestand (one of a pair)

Candlestand (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Cissus vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Cissus vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Settee

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Catha vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Catha vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Karivia samoensis var. vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Karivia samoensis var. vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aralia vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Aralia vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eurya vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Eurya vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eurya vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Eurya vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Nelitris vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Nelitris vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Melochia vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Melochia vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ilex vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Ilex vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Serianthes vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Serianthes vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhytidandra vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Rhytidandra vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oncocarpus vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Oncocarpus vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

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. 108 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. 7484328 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 02:31 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.