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 “Tribulus terrestris L.” — 63 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:21 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.
Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis..., by Johann Baptist Homann

Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis...

Johann Baptist Homann · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris, by John Parkinson

Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris

John Parkinson · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), by Ferdinand Hodler

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1902 to Oct 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1902 to 21 Oct 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Planispheric Astrolabe, by Muhammad Zaman al-Munajjim al-Asturlabi

Planispheric Astrolabe

Muhammad Zaman al-Munajjim al-Asturlabi · dated 1065 AH/1654–55 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus terrestris L.

Tribulus terrestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/11/62

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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 3 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. 1329228 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 13:21 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.