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. 19 shown for “Digby Scott” — 47 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 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.
Coffee Pot on Stand (part of a service), by Digby Scott

Coffee Pot on Stand (part of a service)

Digby Scott · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia maritima Turner & R. Scott

Grimmia maritima Turner & R. Scott

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot (part of a service), by Digby Scott

Teapot (part of a service)

Digby Scott · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Corallina officinalis L.

Corallina officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1938 to 4 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl (part of a service), by Digby Scott

Sugar Bowl (part of a service)

Digby Scott · 1804

Public domainThe Met
Wildemania miniata (C. Agardh) Foslie

Wildemania miniata (C. Agardh) Foslie

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1938 to 4 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hot Water Urn (part of a service), by Digby Scott

Hot Water Urn (part of a service)

Digby Scott · 1804

Public domainThe Met
D. Kenelmvs Digbi Egves, by Dyck, Anthony van

D. Kenelmvs Digbi Egves

Dyck, Anthony van

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milk Jug (part of a service), by Digby Scott

Milk Jug (part of a service)

Digby Scott · 1804

Public domainThe Met
Rhynchospora fusca (L.) W.T. Aiton

Rhynchospora fusca (L.) W.T. Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with arms of William Burrell (1791–1847), by Digby Scott

Tray with arms of William Burrell (1791–1847)

Digby Scott · 1806/7

Public domainThe Met
Eriophorum viridicarinatum (Englem.) Fernald

Eriophorum viridicarinatum (Englem.) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Duke of Buckingham Tea and Coffee Service, by Digby Scott

The Duke of Buckingham Tea and Coffee Service

Digby Scott · 1804/05

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum centrale C.E.O. Jensen

Sphagnum centrale C.E.O. Jensen

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dicranum ontariense W. L. Peterson

Dicranum ontariense W. L. Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zygodon viridissimus (Dicks.) Brid.

Zygodon viridissimus (Dicks.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichophorum alpinum (L.) Pers.

Trichophorum alpinum (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex echinata Murray subsp. echinata

Carex echinata Murray subsp. echinata

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.

Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1924

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20682 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 01:01 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.