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. 24 shown for “Coronilla varia L.” — 60 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:34 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.
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Handed Sword

Two-Handed Sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1903

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

Earflare

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

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

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

Earflare

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

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar to the Sun Warrior, by Mexico Nahua artist(s)

Altar to the Sun Warrior

Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barnyard Scene, by Anthonie van Borssom

Barnyard Scene

Anthonie van Borssom · ca. 1650–55

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dirham of Ghiyath al-Din Kai Khusrau II (r. 1239–46); Astrological Device (Sun-Lion)

Dirham of Ghiyath al-Din Kai Khusrau II (r. 1239–46); Astrological Device (Sun-Lion)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 638 AH/1240–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Coronilla varia L.

Coronilla varia 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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 1 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. 1292879 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 2026-09-01 15:34 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.