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 “Walsura thwaitesii C. DC. in A. DC.” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:30 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.
Pair of candlesticks, by Jacques Demé

Pair of candlesticks

Jacques Demé · 1690–91

Public domainThe Met
Walsura thwaitesii C. DC. in A. DC.

Walsura thwaitesii C. DC. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · without date

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, by Giovanni Baronzio

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Walsura robusta Roxb.

Walsura robusta Roxb.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence, by Baccio Bandinelli

Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence

Baccio Bandinelli · 1539–40

Public domainThe Met
Walsura brachybotrys Merr.

Walsura brachybotrys Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Walsura brachybotrys Merr.

Walsura brachybotrys Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century–1st quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms

Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour, by Jean-Louis Lemoyne

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour

Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Public domainThe Met
Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms

Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms

Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Public domainThe Met
Walsura villamilii Merr.

Walsura villamilii Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1912 to Jun 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Public domainThe Met
Zehneria thwaitesii (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey

Zehneria thwaitesii (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Pandanus thwaitesii Martelli

Pandanus thwaitesii Martelli

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dye-Patterned Silk

Dye-Patterned Silk

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Zehneria thwaitesii (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey

Zehneria thwaitesii (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Oct 1973

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
Cyanotis obtusa (Trimen) Trimen x C. thwaitesii Hassk.

Cyanotis obtusa (Trimen) Trimen x C. thwaitesii Hassk.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Nov 1976

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. 3441 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 7485035 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 2026-09-10 12:30 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.