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 “John Scofield” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 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.
Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair), by John Scofield

Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair)

John Scofield · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Christella serra (Sw.) Holttum

Christella serra (Sw.) Holttum

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver, by John Scofield

Salver

John Scofield · 1784–85

Public domainThe Met
Paralichthys aestuarius Gilbert & Scofield

Paralichthys aestuarius Gilbert & Scofield

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick, by John Scofield

Taperstick

John Scofield · 1782–83

Public domainThe Met
Vaccinium stamineum L.

Vaccinium stamineum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair), by John Scofield

Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair)

John Scofield · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia peduncularis DC.

Ternstroemia peduncularis DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Coronation of the Virgin

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1632–33

Public domainThe Met
Begonia domingensis A. DC.

Begonia domingensis A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman, Back View, by Egon Schiele

Seated Woman, Back View

Egon Schiele · 1917

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia ipecacuanhae L.

Euphorbia ipecacuanhae L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jatropha glaucovirens Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl.

Jatropha glaucovirens Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium barbadense L.

Gossypium barbadense L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium barbadense L.

Gossypium barbadense L.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parula americana

Parula americana

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 19--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euplectes orix franciscanus

Euplectes orix franciscanus

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima (E. Fourn.) Reeder

Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima (E. Fourn.) Reeder

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1917

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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 18 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. 261497 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 22:00 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.