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 “Continuous garlands of freesias, peonies, phlox, and morning glories” — 43 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:26 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.
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Continuous garlands of freesias, peonies, phlox, and morning glories

Continuous garlands of freesias, peonies, phlox, and morning glories

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands

Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Plum, by Kano Sansetsu

Old Plum

Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Sidewall

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1832–33

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of airmail pilot Lloyd Bertaud and unidentified individual

Photograph of airmail pilot Lloyd Bertaud and unidentified individual

Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morning Glory, by Joel Tanner Hart, born Winchester, KY 1810-died Florence, Italy 1877

Morning Glory

Joel Tanner Hart, born Winchester, KY 1810-died Florence, Italy 1877 · modeled ca. 1868, carved 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrangement of morning glories, moss roses, lilies, and other flowers

Arrangement of morning glories, moss roses, lilies, and other flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook Page: Morning Glory, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Morning Glory

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morning Glory and Vines

Morning Glory and Vines

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall and border

Sidewall and border

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melons and Morning Glories, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Melons and Morning Glories

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · 1813

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. 3112610 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-07 23:26 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.