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 “Narcissus” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 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.
Narcissus

Narcissus

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcissus, by Zhao Mengjian

Narcissus

Zhao Mengjian · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcissus, by Laurent de La Hyre

Narcissus

Laurent de La Hyre · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcissus at the Source, by Christoph Jamnitzer

Narcissus at the Source

Christoph Jamnitzer · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Puteal (wellhead) with Narcissus and Echo, and Hylas and the Nymphs

Puteal (wellhead) with Narcissus and Echo, and Hylas and the Nymphs

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus sp.

Narcissus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Genji Wheels, Narcissus Bouquets, Wild Ginger Leaves, Wisteria, and Chrysanthemums

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Genji Wheels, Narcissus Bouquets, Wild Ginger Leaves, Wisteria, and Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus sp.

Narcissus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a bunch of daisies

Limestone statue fragment of a left hand holding a bunch of daisies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.

Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black Cat and Narcissus, by Zhu Ling

Black Cat and Narcissus

Zhu Ling · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus incomparabilis Mill.

Narcissus incomparabilis Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Narcissus, by Xu Xiang

Birds and Narcissus

Xu Xiang · dated 1883

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus incomparabilis Mill.

Narcissus incomparabilis Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone bunch of narcissus

Limestone bunch of narcissus

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.

Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Narcissus, by Suzuki Harunobu

Birds and Narcissus

Suzuki Harunobu

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Narcissus x medioluteus Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcissus and Echo, by Frans van der Neve

Narcissus and Echo

Frans van der Neve · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Narcissus poeticus L.

Narcissus poeticus L.

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. 111 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 311 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 2026-08-26 20:19 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.