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 “Niccolò Cavalli” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Piazza de' Cavalli in Piacenza, by Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841

Piazza de' Cavalli in Piacenza

Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841 · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floscopa africana (P. Beauv.) C.B. Clarke subsp. africana

Floscopa africana (P. Beauv.) C.B. Clarke subsp. africana

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Nov 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Florence with the Cathedral, S. Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Plate 4 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Florence with the Cathedral, S. Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Plate 4 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psychotria rufipilis A. Chev. ex De Wild.

Psychotria rufipilis A. Chev. ex De Wild.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bertiera racemosa (G. Don) K. Schum.

Bertiera racemosa (G. Don) K. Schum.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Homalolepis cedron (Planch.) Devecchi & Pirani

Homalolepis cedron (Planch.) Devecchi & Pirani

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Homalolepis cedron (Planch.) Devecchi & Pirani

Homalolepis cedron (Planch.) Devecchi & Pirani

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bombax brevicuspe Spreng.

Bombax brevicuspe Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acmispon denticulatus (Drew) D.D. Sokoloff

Acmispon denticulatus (Drew) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation

The Lamentation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ascension of Mary Magdalene

The Ascension of Mary Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 48 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 13:36 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.