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 “Otto Marseus van Schrieck” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:26 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.

Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a terminal figure of Charity, by Otto van Veen, Flemish, 1556 - 1629

Design for a terminal figure of Charity

Otto van Veen, Flemish, 1556 - 1629 · 1576–1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solanum leptocaulon Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Solanum leptocaulon Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dodecatheon jeffreyi Van Houtte

Dodecatheon jeffreyi Van Houtte

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solanum ochrophyllum Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Solanum ochrophyllum Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibicella lutea (Lindl.) Van Eselt.

Ibicella lutea (Lindl.) Van Eselt.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/12/91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rafnia acuminata (E. Mey.) G.J. Campb. & B.-E. van Wyk

Rafnia acuminata (E. Mey.) G.J. Campb. & B.-E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /11/94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ocotea julianii van der Werff

Ocotea julianii van der Werff

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus dregeanus Hochst.

Juncus dregeanus Hochst.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhodostemonodaphne steyermarkiana (C.K. Allen) van der Werff

Rhodostemonodaphne steyermarkiana (C.K. Allen) van der Werff

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diclis reptans Benth.

Diclis reptans Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/3/94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phygelius capensis E. Mey. ex Benth.

Phygelius capensis E. Mey. ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/3/97

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. 61057 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 00:26 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.