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 “Symplocos hookeri C.B. Clarke in Hook. f.” — 44 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:55 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.
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Symplocos hookeri C.B. Clarke in Hook. f.

Symplocos hookeri C.B. Clarke in Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arrival in Bethlehem, by Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew

The Arrival in Bethlehem

Master of the Brussels Calling of Saint Matthew · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Symplocos chapaensis Guillaumin

Symplocos chapaensis Guillaumin

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Symplocos chapaensis Guillaumin

Symplocos chapaensis Guillaumin

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobed bowl with a royal inscription

Lobed bowl with a royal inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 465–424 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vandellia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Vandellia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nannoglottis hookeri (Clarke ex Hook. f.) Kitam.

Nannoglottis hookeri (Clarke ex Hook. f.) Kitam.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lindenbergia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Lindenbergia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lindenbergia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Lindenbergia hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lasianthus hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Lasianthus hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lasianthus hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Lasianthus hookeri C.B. Clarke ex Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anaphalis triplinervis (Sims) C.B. Clarke

Anaphalis triplinervis (Sims) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pterocephalus hookeri C.B. Clarke

Pterocephalus hookeri C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1928 to Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pterocephalus hookeri C.B. Clarke

Pterocephalus hookeri C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1922

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. 7462263 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 05:55 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.