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. 21 shown for “Phormidium orientale G.S. West” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:12 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.
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium orientale G.S. West

Phormidium orientale G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · 1899 or 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium fragile f. tenue W. West & G.S. West

Phormidium fragile f. tenue W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium angustissimum W. West & G.S. West

Phormidium angustissimum W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium glaciale W. West & G.S. West

Phormidium glaciale W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium antarcticum W. West & G.S. West

Phormidium antarcticum W. West & G.S. West

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium orientale var. breviarticulatum N.L. Gardner

Phormidium orientale var. breviarticulatum N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium orientale var. breviarticulatum N.L. Gardner

Phormidium orientale var. breviarticulatum N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with female busts in medallions

Bowl with female busts in medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Phormidium feldmannii Frémy

Phormidium feldmannii Frémy

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle Insert

Sickle Insert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anthurium bonplandii G.S. Bunting subsp. bonplandii

Anthurium bonplandii G.S. Bunting subsp. bonplandii

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1959 to Mar 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium submembranaceum Kütz. ex Gomont

Phormidium submembranaceum Kütz. ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium autumnale var. minus N.L. Gardner

Phormidium autumnale var. minus N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium corallyticum Ruetzler & Santavy

Phormidium corallyticum Ruetzler & Santavy

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1981

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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 530976 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 2026-09-05 10:12 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.