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. 11 shown for “Niccolò di ser Sozzo” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:29 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.

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
Dianthus balbisii Ser.

Dianthus balbisii Ser.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dorycnium rectum (L.) Ser.

Dorycnium rectum (L.) Ser.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/6/67

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
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wúk-mi-ser, Corn, a Miniconjou Warrior, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wúk-mi-ser, Corn, a Miniconjou Warrior

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville, by Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766

Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville

Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766 · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere, by Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere

Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oenothera sinuosa Nutt. ex Ser.

Oenothera sinuosa Nutt. ex Ser.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/7/2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cherleria arctica (Steven ex Ser.) A.J. Moore & Dillenb.

Cherleria arctica (Steven ex Ser.) A.J. Moore & Dillenb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1905

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. 27217 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-29 12:29 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.