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. 18 shown for “Dong Yuan” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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.
Landscape in the manner of Dong Yuan, by Lu Kezheng

Landscape in the manner of Dong Yuan

Lu Kezheng · 1591/1651

Public domainThe Met
Winter landscape: travelers at a ferry, by Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962)

Winter landscape: travelers at a ferry

Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Unidentified artist

Landscape

Unidentified artist · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape: perpendicular cliffs and rough water, by Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962)

Landscape: perpendicular cliffs and rough water

Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountain Landscape, by Unidentified artist

Mountain Landscape

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Mountain Landscape, by Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962)

Mountain Landscape

Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Riverbank, by Dong Yuan

Riverbank

Dong Yuan

Public domainThe Met
Travelers among mountains and streams, by Traditionally attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962)

Travelers among mountains and streams

Traditionally attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Trees in the Manner of Ni Zan (1301–1374), by Dong Qichang

Landscape with Trees in the Manner of Ni Zan (1301–1374)

Dong Qichang · ca. 1622–25

Public domainThe Met
Mountain landscape, by Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962)

Mountain landscape

Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 1550-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains, by Dong Qichang

Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains

Dong Qichang · ca. 1622–25

Public domainThe Met
River valley with houses and temples, by Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962)

River valley with houses and temples

Formerly attributed to Dong Yuan (傳)董源 (died 962) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape after Dong Yuan, Juran, Ma Yuan, and Xia Gui, by Li Zai

Landscape after Dong Yuan, Juran, Ma Yuan, and Xia Gui

Li Zai · dated yiwei 乙未, 1655?

Public domainThe Met
Landscapes after old masters, by Dong Qichang

Landscapes after old masters

Dong Qichang · dated 1630

Public domainThe Met
Landscapes and poems, by Dong Qichang

Landscapes and poems

Dong Qichang · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Angling in the Autumn River, by Sheng Zhu

Angling in the Autumn River

Sheng Zhu · ca. 1370

Public domainThe Met
Illustration of Su Shi’s “Second Rhapsody on Red Cliff”, by Unidentified artist

Illustration of Su Shi’s “Second Rhapsody on Red Cliff”

Unidentified artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Simple Retreat, by Wang Meng

Simple Retreat

Wang Meng · ca. 1370

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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 10227 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.