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. 19 shown for “Savoiea robusta (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne” — 48 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:06 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.
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Public domainThe Met
Savoiea robusta (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Savoiea robusta (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit, by Pieter de Hooch

The Visit

Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Public domainThe Met
Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Maid Asleep, by Johannes Vermeer

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Public domainThe Met
Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Savoiea bipinnata (Postels & Rupr.) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · May 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phycodrina elegans (Setch. & N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Phycodrina elegans (Setch. & N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jan 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phycodrina elegans (Setch. & N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Phycodrina elegans (Setch. & N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Tokidadendron bullatum (N.L. Gardner) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1970

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26199 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 20:06 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.