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 “Lamium album L.” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:37 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album, by James McNeill Whistler

Album

James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Hamid Bhakari Punished by Akbar", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album, by Abu'l Fazl

"Hamid Bhakari Punished by Akbar", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album

Abu'l Fazl · ca. 1604

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 2/9/46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book or album cover, by Henry-Auguste Fourdinois

Book or album cover

Henry-Auguste Fourdinois · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes and trees, by Gong Xian

Landscapes and trees

Gong Xian · ca. 1679

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong, by Yun Xiang

Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Yun Xiang · datable to 1645–55

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rustam's Fourth Course, He Cleaves a Witch", Folio 120v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam's Fourth Course, He Cleaves a Witch", Folio 120v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Zhang Feng

Landscapes

Zhang Feng · dated 1644

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu, by Various artists

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu

Various artists · 1666–80

Public domainThe Met
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1908

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. 2005 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1299392 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 09:37 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.