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 “Salacia rivularis Louis” — 41 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:26 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.
A shore framed by rocks, with Neptune in his chariot on the left and Salacia in hers on the right; at center, a ship caught in a storm; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro', by Mathäus Küsel

A shore framed by rocks, with Neptune in his chariot on the left and Salacia in hers on the right; at center, a ship caught in a storm; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Mathäus Küsel · 1668

Public domainThe Met
Salacia rivularis Louis

Salacia rivularis Louis

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvaria rivularis Louis ex Boutique

Uvaria rivularis Louis ex Boutique

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia debilis (G. Don) Walpers

Salacia debilis (G. Don) Walpers

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia mannii Oliv.

Salacia mannii Oliv.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia elegans Welw. ex Oliv.

Salacia elegans Welw. ex Oliv.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia longipes (Oliv.) N. Hallé

Salacia longipes (Oliv.) N. Hallé

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia erecta (G. Don) Walp.

Salacia erecta (G. Don) Walp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia staudtiana Loes.

Salacia staudtiana Loes.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia erecta (G. Don) Walp.

Salacia erecta (G. Don) Walp.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia laurentii De Wild.

Salacia laurentii De Wild.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacia senegalensis (Lam.) DC.

Salacia senegalensis (Lam.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salacighia letestuana (Pellegr.) Blakelock

Salacighia letestuana (Pellegr.) Blakelock

Artist not stated in the record

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. 42034 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-02 21:26 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.