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 “Fang Yulu” — 50 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:05 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.
Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif, by Fang Yulu

Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif

Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Vernonia angustifolia var. mohrii S.B. Jones

Vernonia angustifolia var. mohrii S.B. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Cake with Children at Play, by Fang Yulu

Ink Cake with Children at Play

Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Jasminum subhumile W.W. Sm.

Jasminum subhumile W.W. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet Decorated with Emblems of Investiture, by Fang Yulu

Ink Tablet Decorated with Emblems of Investiture

Fang Yulu · dated 1576

Public domainThe Met
Berlandiera pumila (Michx.) Nutt.

Berlandiera pumila (Michx.) Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountains of the Heart (Kyōchūzan), by Kameda Bōsai

Mountains of the Heart (Kyōchūzan)

Kameda Bōsai · 1816

Public domainThe Met
Polypremum procumbens L.

Polypremum procumbens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899 to 18 Aug 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet Decorated with Five Pines, by Cheng Junfang

Ink Tablet Decorated with Five Pines

Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze

Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899 to 18 Aug 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Tang Mirror Design

Ink Tablet with Tang Mirror Design

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris serratodentata (Bedd.) Hayata

Dryopteris serratodentata (Bedd.) Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Peach Tree

Ink Tablet with Peach Tree

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Paullinia clavigera Schltdl.

Paullinia clavigera Schltdl.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Dec 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif, by Cheng Junfang

Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif

Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang

Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink Tablet

Ink Tablet

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang

Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai, by Li Jie

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai

Li Jie · ca. 1170

Public domainThe Met
Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang

Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acer gracile W.P. Fang

Acer gracile W.P. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deutzia omeiense Fang sp. nov. ined.

Deutzia omeiense Fang sp. nov. ined.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1930

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2504 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 08:05 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.