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. 17 shown for “Lizard Man Figure (Moko)” — 49 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:22 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.
Lizard Man Figure (Moko)

Lizard Man Figure (Moko)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Duke Kahanamoku, by Unidentified Artist

Duke Kahanamoku

Unidentified Artist · c. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moko (lizardman figure), by Rapa Nui artist

Moko (lizardman figure)

Rapa Nui artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Mourera fluviatilis Aubl.

Mourera fluviatilis Aubl.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Macuilcoatl, by Mexica artist(s)

Macuilcoatl

Mexica artist(s) · 1450–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Title Page of “Comic Fables, Out of The World”, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Sketch for Title Page of “Comic Fables, Out of The World”

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · ca. 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
Title Page for "Comic Fables, Out of The World", by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Title Page for "Comic Fables, Out of The World"

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partial tea set (teapot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, slop bowl), by Union Porcelain Works

Partial tea set (teapot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, slop bowl)

Union Porcelain Works · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Acrostichum danaeifolium Langsd. & Fisch.

Acrostichum danaeifolium Langsd. & Fisch.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with confronting figures

Stirrup-spout bottle with confronting figures

Artist not stated in the record · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Mastomys natalensis

Mastomys natalensis

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Cinchona pubescens Vahl

Cinchona pubescens Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/6/47

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pelagodroma marina

Pelagodroma marina

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brachyotum microdon (Naudin) Triana

Brachyotum microdon (Naudin) Triana

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /4/58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acrostichum danaeifolium Langsd. & Fisch.

Acrostichum danaeifolium Langsd. & Fisch.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1961

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 95014 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 16:22 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.