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. 13 shown for “Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr. ex Christ” — 41 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:58 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.
Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ, by Master Pertoldus

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Master Pertoldus · 1494

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr. ex Christ

Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr. ex Christ

Artist not stated in the record · 1901 to 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr. ex Christ

Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr. ex Christ

Artist not stated in the record · 1901 to 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr.

Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris labordei (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris labordei (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris formosana (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris formosana (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris formosana (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris formosana (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Dryopteris chrysocoma (Christ) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1885

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1313845 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 2026-09-05 10:58 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.