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. 23 shown for “Earflare with condor” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 02:41 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.
Earflare with Condor

Earflare with Condor

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Model, Static, Curtiss T-32 Condor, American Airlines

Model, Static, Curtiss T-32 Condor, American Airlines

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with condor

Earflare with condor

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Matayba camptoneura Radlk.

Matayba camptoneura Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Earflare

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Deyeuxia colorata Beetle

Deyeuxia colorata Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Earflare

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Chloris sp.

Chloris sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tumi (knife) with condor, by Moche artist(s)

Tumi (knife) with condor

Moche artist(s) · 200–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bromus catharticus Vahl

Bromus catharticus Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare Frontal, by Huastec artist(s)

Earflare Frontal

Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Festuca sp.

Festuca sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare with spider, by Moche artist(s)

Earflare with spider

Moche artist(s) · 200–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Jarava plumosula (Nees ex Steud.) F. Rojas

Jarava plumosula (Nees ex Steud.) F. Rojas

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare

Earflare

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Panicum sp.

Panicum sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare

Earflare

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Setaria sp.

Setaria sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Earflare

Earflare

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cenchrus sp.

Cenchrus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament with winged runner, by Moche artist(s)

Ear ornament with winged runner

Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lamprothyrsus sp.

Lamprothyrsus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 2006

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. 83 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 249940 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-09 02:41 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.