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. 14 shown for “Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.” — 42 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:33 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.
Portrait of a Young Man, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Portrait of a Young Man

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Public domainThe Met
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Koeleria spicata (L.) Barberá et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1876

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1422925 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 2026-09-08 19:33 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.