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. 24 shown for “Salvia mexicana L.” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:44 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.
Altar to the Sun Warrior, by Mexico Nahua artist(s)

Altar to the Sun Warrior

Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armband, by Huastec artist(s)

Armband

Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armband, by Huastec artist(s)

Armband

Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpent labret with articulated tongue, by Mexica artist(s)

Serpent labret with articulated tongue

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1865 to 1 Aug 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantle pin (ttipqui)

Mantle pin (ttipqui)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drum (Teponaztli)

Drum (Teponaztli)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yoke-form vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Yoke-form vessel

Maya artist(s) · 350–450 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1865 to 21 Sep 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bound-hands hacha, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Bound-hands hacha

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Effigy of a Boy, Probably Ermengol IX, Count of Urgell

Tomb Effigy of a Boy, Probably Ermengol IX, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs, by Olmec artist(s)

Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs

Olmec artist(s) · 900–600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salvia mexicana L.

Salvia mexicana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1865 to 1866

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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1310633 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 2026-09-01 11:44 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.