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. 20 shown for “Daoist priest’s ritual robe with cranes” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 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.
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with cranes

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with cranes

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rice measure with four constellation deities

Rice measure with four constellation deities

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel from priest's robe

Panel from priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with Eight Trigrams

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with Eight Trigrams

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rabbit in the Moon

Rabbit in the Moon

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with deities of the pantheon

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with deities of the pantheon

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th to early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman's surcoat

Woman's surcoat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Church at Puerto Naré, Rio Magdalena, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Church at Puerto Naré, Rio Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 18, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Eight Daoist Immortals Welcoming Jurōjin

Eight Daoist Immortals Welcoming Jurōjin

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Eight Daoist Immortals Welcoming Jurōjin

Eight Daoist Immortals Welcoming Jurōjin

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 257923 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:52 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.