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. 16 shown for “Seifu Yohei III” — 44 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 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.
Set of Five Sencha Teacups with Auspicious Plants, by Seifu Yohei III

Set of Five Sencha Teacups with Auspicious Plants

Seifu Yohei III · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus juglandifolius Willd.

Phyllanthus juglandifolius Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1965 to 24 Sep 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Seifu Yohei

Bowl

Seifu Yohei · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia ingifolia Rich. ex Juss.

Paullinia ingifolia Rich. ex Juss.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Seifu Yohei

Bowl

Seifu Yohei · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Guarea sp.

Guarea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1965 to 22 Sep 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Seifu Yohei

Bowl

Seifu Yohei · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.) Poir.

Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.) Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1965 to 15 Oct 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acalypha stachyura Pax

Acalypha stachyura Pax

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1965 to 15 Oct 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colignonia sp.

Colignonia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ficus obtusifolia Kunth

Ficus obtusifolia Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1965 to 24 Sep 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuphea melvilla Lindl.

Cuphea melvilla Lindl.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1965 to 24 Sep 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gordonia fruticosa (Schrad.) H. Keng

Gordonia fruticosa (Schrad.) H. Keng

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trachypogon sp.

Trachypogon sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coccoloba sp.

Coccoloba sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1965 to 24 Sep 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clitoria arborescens R. Br.

Clitoria arborescens R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1965 to 24 Sep 1965

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13349 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 22:15 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.