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 “Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa” — 42 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:37 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.
Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔), by Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa

Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔)

Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.

Fissidens grandifrons Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔), by Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa

Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Crests and Arabesques (家紋散唐草文鐔)

Koike Izumi no Kami Naomasa · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris dickinsii (Franch. & Sav.) Christ

Dryopteris dickinsii (Franch. & Sav.) Christ

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vepris teva Cheek

Vepris teva Cheek

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kallymenia perforata J. Agardh

Kallymenia perforata J. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sargassum yendoi

Sargassum yendoi

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Dec 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dictyopteris papenfussii Tak. Tanaka

Dictyopteris papenfussii Tak. Tanaka

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chara fibrosa C. Agardh ex Bruzelius

Chara fibrosa C. Agardh ex Bruzelius

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Champia parvula (C. Agardh) Harv.

Champia parvula (C. Agardh) Harv.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scinaia okiensis M. Kajimura

Scinaia okiensis M. Kajimura

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acrosorium yendoi Yamada

Acrosorium yendoi Yamada

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bonnemaisonia hamifera P. Hariot

Bonnemaisonia hamifera P. Hariot

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Martensia denticulata Harv.

Martensia denticulata Harv.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1988

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. 208631 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 22:37 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.