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 “Cornus mas L.” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:03 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.
Tahiri (handle for a fly whisk), by Mā'ohi artist

Tahiri (handle for a fly whisk)

Mā'ohi artist · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orchid and rock, by Ma Shouzhen

Orchid and rock

Ma Shouzhen · dated 1572

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
To'o (ritual image), by Mā'ohi artist

To'o (ritual image)

Mā'ohi artist · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tahiri ra'a (fly whisk), by Mā'ohi artist

Tahiri ra'a (fly whisk)

Mā'ohi artist · Early–mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length

Length

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan

Fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan

Fan

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
High Chest of Drawers

High Chest of Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–50

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Earflare

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Earflare

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of Emperor Matthias (reigned 1612–19)

Halberd of Emperor Matthias (reigned 1612–19)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1612

Public domainThe Met
Basket-Hilted Sword

Basket-Hilted Sword

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–50

Public domainThe Met
Cornus mas L.

Cornus mas L.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1310562 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 2026-09-07 11:03 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.