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. 14 shown for “Nivenia dispar N.E. Br.” — 42 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:42 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.
Sea monster, by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Sea monster

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · ca. 1500–1510

Public domainThe Met
Nivenia dispar N.E. Br.

Nivenia dispar N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sea monster, by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Sea monster

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nivenia concinna N.E. Br.

Nivenia concinna N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Nivenia stokoei (L. Guthrie) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erica nivenia Andrews

Erica nivenia Andrews

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erica nivenia Andrews

Erica nivenia Andrews

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/2/11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Telosma africanum (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Telosma africanum (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caralluma speciosa (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Caralluma speciosa (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1962

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 59086 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-08 19:42 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.