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. 24 shown for “Erica mediterranea L.” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:12 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.
Erica Fulgida, by Pierre Joseph Redouté

Erica Fulgida

Pierre Joseph Redouté · 1813

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver Bucket

Silver Bucket

Artist not stated in the record · 600s

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer of Zenobius

Ewer of Zenobius

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/4/96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield, by Moche artist(s)

Shield

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1850 to 25 May 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the head of a ram

Vessel terminating in the head of a ram

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

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Music-Making Angels, by Albrecht Dürer

Music-Making Angels

Albrecht Dürer · 1521

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/2/32

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhyton in the form of a Saiga antelope head

Rhyton in the form of a Saiga antelope head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th–6th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Erica mediterranea L.

Erica mediterranea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a ram

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a ram

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ericaria mediterranea (Sauvageau) Molinari & Guiry

Ericaria mediterranea (Sauvageau) Molinari & Guiry

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Ericaria mediterranea (Sauvageau) Molinari & Guiry

Ericaria mediterranea (Sauvageau) Molinari & Guiry

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1991

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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1291963 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 08:12 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.