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 “Fan leaf” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:23 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.
Landscapes, by Fan Qi

Landscapes

Fan Qi · dated 1646

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes painted for Yuweng, by Fan Qi

Landscapes painted for Yuweng

Fan Qi · dated 1673

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan

Fan

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

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan, by E. Prieur

Fan

E. Prieur · ca. 1889

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan, by Edouard Moreau

Fan

Edouard Moreau · ca. 1860–75

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan fragment

Fan fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fan Leaf, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Design for a Fan Leaf

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan leaf with seventeen charades, by Anonymous, British, 18th century

Fan leaf with seventeen charades

Anonymous, British, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fan Leaf, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Design for a Fan Leaf

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes after historical painters, by Yun Xiang

Landscapes after historical painters

Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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. 555 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 16765 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 11:23 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.