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. 17 shown for “Cuirass (Char-aina)” — 46 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:27 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.
Cuirass (Char-aina)

Cuirass (Char-aina)

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with Cuirass at Center, Flanked by Two Genii

Frieze with Cuirass at Center, Flanked by Two Genii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuirass (Char-aina)

Cuirass (Char-aina)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Grewia cuneifolia Juss.

Grewia cuneifolia Juss.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuirass (Char-aina) with Mail Shirt

Cuirass (Char-aina) with Mail Shirt

Artist not stated in the record · cuirass, 17th–early 18th century; mail shirt, 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Gleichenia dicarpa R. Br.

Gleichenia dicarpa R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/5/63

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuirass

Cuirass

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

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Weapons, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Trophy with Weapons

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1830–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuirass

Cuirass

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Trophy of Weapons, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Trophy of Weapons

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1830–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erica sp.

Erica sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miconia ceramicarpa var. candolleana Cogn.

Miconia ceramicarpa var. candolleana Cogn.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/10/80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dombeya laurifolia (Bojer) Baill.

Dombeya laurifolia (Bojer) Baill.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helichrysum mutisiaefolium Less.

Helichrysum mutisiaefolium Less.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupania diphylla Vahl

Cupania diphylla Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupania diphylla Vahl

Cupania diphylla Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Dec 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clidemia aphanantha (Naudin) Sagot

Clidemia aphanantha (Naudin) Sagot

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 1987

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 405 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 07:27 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.