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 “Primulina gemella (D. Wood) Y.Z. Wang” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:16 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.
Primulina gemella (D. Wood) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina gemella (D. Wood) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina gemella (D. Wood) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina gemella (D. Wood) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chirita quercifolia D. Wood

Chirita quercifolia D. Wood

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina linearifolia (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina linearifolia (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina pinnata (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina pinnata (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina subrhomboidea (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina subrhomboidea (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina longgangensis (W.T. Wang) Yan Liu & Y.Z. Wang

Primulina longgangensis (W.T. Wang) Yan Liu & Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina heterotricha (Merr.) Y. Dong & Y.Z. Wang

Primulina heterotricha (Merr.) Y. Dong & Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina eburnea (Hance) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina eburnea (Hance) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina heterotricha (Merr.) Y. Dong & Y.Z. Wang

Primulina heterotricha (Merr.) Y. Dong & Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina eburnea (Hance) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina eburnea (Hance) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primulina eburnea (Hance) Y.Z. Wang

Primulina eburnea (Hance) Y.Z. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1907

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 885674 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 2026-09-07 09:16 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.