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 “Dryopteris chiriquiana f. major C. Chr.” — 46 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:54 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.
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris chiriquiana f. major C. Chr.

Dryopteris chiriquiana f. major C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Nebamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris chiriquiana C. Chr.

Dryopteris chiriquiana C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1911 to 24 Mar 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris chiriquiana C. Chr.

Dryopteris chiriquiana C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1911 to 24 Mar 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helm for the Joust of Peace (Stechhelm)

Helm for the Joust of Peace (Stechhelm)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris rusbyi var. major C. Chr.

Dryopteris rusbyi var. major C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta chariot krater

Terracotta chariot krater

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Feb 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /2/9

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1906 to 2 May 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Ctenitis chiriquiana (C. Chr.) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1901

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. 1566724 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 07:54 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.