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 “Melissa officinalis L.” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:06 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.
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror, by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

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
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angelica and Medoro, by François Boucher

Angelica and Medoro

François Boucher · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature camelid effigy, by Inca artist(s)

Miniature camelid effigy

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chuspa (coca bag), by Moche artist(s)

Chuspa (coca bag)

Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt

Belt

Artist not stated in the record · 200–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cypress Fans and Moonflower (Yūgao) Blossoms

Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cypress Fans and Moonflower (Yūgao) Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Three Ages of Humans, by Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero)

The Three Ages of Humans

Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilate Washing His Hands, by Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)

Pilate Washing His Hands

Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Public domainThe Met
Melissa officinalis L.

Melissa officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1291378 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:06 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.