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 “Duke Wen of Jin recovering his state” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:16 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.
Duke Wen of Jin Recovering His State, by Li Tang

Duke Wen of Jin Recovering His State

Li Tang · mid-12th century

Public domainThe Met
Duke Wen of Jin recovering his state

Duke Wen of Jin recovering his state

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with scene of Duke Ling of Jin

Dish with scene of Duke Ling of Jin

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Nekemias grossedentata (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Nekemias grossedentata (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River, by Mi Fu

Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River

Mi Fu · ca. 1095

Public domainThe Met
Aralia dasyphylla Miq.

Aralia dasyphylla Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin, by Yang Bangji

A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin

Yang Bangji · ca. late 1150s

Public domainThe Met
Nekemias rubifolia (Wall.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Nekemias rubifolia (Wall.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Odes of the State of Bin, by Ma Hezhi

Odes of the State of Bin

Ma Hezhi · mid-12th century

Public domainThe Met
Causonis mollis (M.A. Lawson ex Wall.) Parmar & J. Wen

Causonis mollis (M.A. Lawson ex Wall.) Parmar & J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen

Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru

Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095

Public domainThe Met
Causonis mollis (M.A. Lawson ex Wall.) Parmar & J. Wen

Causonis mollis (M.A. Lawson ex Wall.) Parmar & J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Trees, Level Distance, by Guo Xi

Old Trees, Level Distance

Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Public domainThe Met
Nyssa sinensis Oliv. in Hook.

Nyssa sinensis Oliv. in Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pear Blossoms, by Unidentified

Pear Blossoms

Unidentified · ca. 1280

Public domainThe Met
Cissus assamica (M.A. Lawson) Craib

Cissus assamica (M.A. Lawson) Craib

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem of Farewell to Liu Man, by Yelü Chucai

Poem of Farewell to Liu Man

Yelü Chucai · dated 1240

Public domainThe Met
Aralia finlaysoniana (Wall. ex G. Don) Seem.

Aralia finlaysoniana (Wall. ex G. Don) Seem.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece and Colophons to the Album "Five Old Men of Suiyang", by Various Scholars

Frontispiece and Colophons to the Album "Five Old Men of Suiyang"

Various Scholars

Public domainThe Met
Garcinia multiflora Champ. ex Benth.

Garcinia multiflora Champ. ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality, by Wang Zhenpeng

Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality

Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308

Public domainThe Met
Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen

Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 2023

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. 25 matched · 24 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. 6414416 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-05 06:16 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.