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. 18 shown for “Dianthus chinensis L.” — 46 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:09 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.
Young Woman with a Pink, by Hans Memling

Young Woman with a Pink

Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Padarath

"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Padarath · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Hashim

"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Hashim · recto: ca. 1620; verso: 1537–47

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Qilich Khan Turani", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by La'lchand

"Portrait of Qilich Khan Turani", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

La'lchand · recto: ca. 1640; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Lalchand

"Portrait of Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Lalchand · recto: ca. 1630; verso: ca.1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Jahangir and his Father, Akbar", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Balachand

"Jahangir and his Father, Akbar", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Balachand · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca.1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus chinensis L.

Dianthus chinensis 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. 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. 1295526 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-29 16:09 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.