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. 18 shown for “Silene antirrhina L.” — 46 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:42 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.
Fragment of a partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen

Fragment of a partly unfinished limestone statuette of a silen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /10/77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a limestone statuette of a silen (?)

Fragment of a limestone statuette of a silen (?)

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos in the shape of Silenus

Terracotta askos in the shape of Silenus

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angelica and Medoro, by François Boucher

Angelica and Medoro

François Boucher · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Silenus, by Paul Cézanne

Head of Silenus

Paul Cézanne · 1855–1906

Public domainThe Met
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Silenus, by Nicolas de Launay

The Triumph of Silenus

Nicolas de Launay · 1775–78

Public domainThe Met
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene antirrhina L.

Silene antirrhina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1895

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1294135 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 08:42 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.