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. 12 shown for “Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz. var. villosa” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:50 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.
Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz. var. villosa

Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz. var. villosa

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.

Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.

Lyonia villosa (Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyonia villosa var. sphaerantha (Hand.-Mazz.) Hand.-Mazz.

Lyonia villosa var. sphaerantha (Hand.-Mazz.) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyonia villosa var. sphaerantha (Hand.-Mazz.) Hand.-Mazz.

Lyonia villosa var. sphaerantha (Hand.-Mazz.) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ligularia hookeri (C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.

Ligularia hookeri (C.B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maesa indica var. retusa Hand.-Mazz.

Maesa indica var. retusa Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saussurea polycolea Hand.-Mazz.

Saussurea polycolea Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commelina villosa (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke ex Chodat

Commelina villosa (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke ex Chodat

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aster elegans Hook. f. & Thoms. ex C.B. Clarke

Aster elegans Hook. f. & Thoms. ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caryopteris grata (Wall. ex Walp.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke

Caryopteris grata (Wall. ex Walp.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vandellia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Vandellia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1099943 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 2026-09-03 01:50 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.