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 “Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:48 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.
Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond, by Abu Zayd al-Kashani

Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond

Abu Zayd al-Kashani · dated 582 AH/1186 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.

Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.

Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim Flask, by Bernard Palissy

Pilgrim Flask

Bernard Palissy · probably 1556–67

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tupu (pin), by Wari or Inca artist(s)

Tupu (pin)

Wari or Inca artist(s) · Before the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gray Weather, Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat

Gray Weather, Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat · ca. 1886–88

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Capture of Carthage, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Capture of Carthage

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Reading, by Camille Corot

A Woman Reading

Camille Corot · 1869 and 1870

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side panel of a writing box (decorated with Medusa mask), by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Side panel of a writing box (decorated with Medusa mask)

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · cast 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Front panel of a writing box (decorated with centaurs and nymphs), by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Front panel of a writing box (decorated with centaurs and nymphs)

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · cast 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medusa mask, by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Medusa mask

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · cast 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, by Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), by Vincent van Gogh

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1894

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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 192259 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 05:48 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.