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. 22 shown for “Chi” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:44 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.
Po, by Chi

Po

Chi · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus sp.

Phyllanthus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer in the shape of lotus leaf with chi dragons

Brush washer in the shape of lotus leaf with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Urena sp.

Urena sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with chi dragons

Vase with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright in Sauvalle

Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright in Sauvalle

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with chi dragons

Vase with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hypolytrum nudum C.B. Clarke

Hypolytrum nudum C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Musician

Seated Musician

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora foetida L.

Passiflora foetida L.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with chi dragons

Bowl with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia sp.

Ternstroemia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libation cup with chi dragons

Libation cup with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Matayba ptariana Steyerm.

Matayba ptariana Steyerm.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paper weight with chi dragons

Paper weight with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia sp.

Ternstroemia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-shaped bottle with chi dragons

Gourd-shaped bottle with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ternstroemia sp.

Ternstroemia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with chi dragons amid clouds

Box with chi dragons amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bandicota savilei

Bandicota savilei

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with patterns of phoenixes and chi dragons

Box with patterns of phoenixes and chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Vase with roundels of phoenix and chi dragon

Vase with roundels of phoenix and chi dragon

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 229 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 3714 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 01:44 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.