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. 13 shown for “Pacetti, Vincenzo” — 41 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:11 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.
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos"), by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Mantelpiece Decoration, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Mantelpiece Decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ardea herodias

Ardea herodias

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achyranthes humilis (Hillebr.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Achyranthes humilis (Hillebr.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyathula quadrangula (Engl.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Cyathula quadrangula (Engl.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyathula involucrata (Moq.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Cyathula involucrata (Moq.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyathula quadrangula (Engl.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Cyathula quadrangula (Engl.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achyranthes humilis (Hillebr.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Achyranthes humilis (Hillebr.) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Achyranthes sandwicensis (A. Gray) Di Vincenzo et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1932

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 276 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 2026-08-27 06:11 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.