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 “Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:03 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoes

Shoes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoes

Shoes

Artist not stated in the record · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoes

Shoes

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–79

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Slippers

Slippers

Artist not stated in the record · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · May 1922 to Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Slippers

Slippers

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–39

Public domainThe Met
Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Swertia macrosperma (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1922 to Oct 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coat

Coat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893

Public domainThe Met
Swertia bimaculata (Siebold & Zucc.) Hook. f. & Thomson ex C.B. Clarke

Swertia bimaculata (Siebold & Zucc.) Hook. f. & Thomson ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Piece Offering!! Memoirs, Life, Letters &c. of M. A. Clarke, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Piece Offering!! Memoirs, Life, Letters &c. of M. A. Clarke

Thomas Rowlandson · April 22, 1809

Public domainThe Met
Swertia alata C.B. Clarke

Swertia alata C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), by Georges Seurat

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Swertia thomsonii C.B. Clarke

Swertia thomsonii C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Swertia cordata (Wall. ex G. Don) C.B. Clarke

Swertia cordata (Wall. ex G. Don) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Oct 1949

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. 320 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 74111 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 2026-09-03 00:03 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.