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 “Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264)” — 48 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:44 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.
Miniature Landscape, by Unidentified artist

Miniature Landscape

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West, by Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264)

The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West

Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264) · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palace ladies bathing children, by Unidentified artist

Palace ladies bathing children

Unidentified artist · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wind and Water: Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu, by Unidentified artist

Wind and Water: Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Girl seated at an embroidery frame, by Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800)

Girl seated at an embroidery frame

Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800) · 15th century

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

Landscape

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Woodcutter receiving a drink at a fishing boat, by Formerly attributed to Fang Congyi (active 1340-1380)

Woodcutter receiving a drink at a fishing boat

Formerly attributed to Fang Congyi (active 1340-1380) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Three Scholars, by Unidentified artist

The Three Scholars

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia, by Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1606 - 1681

Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia

Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1606 - 1681 · 1638

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych: The Last Judgment, by Master of the Orléans Triptych

Triptych: The Last Judgment

Master of the Orléans Triptych · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Man

Unidentified Man

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Night-Shining White, by Han Gan

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Burleigh), by Unidentified Artist

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Burleigh)

Unidentified Artist · 1589-1610

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
Promenading ladies, by Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800)

Promenading ladies

Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800) · 14th century ?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merremia yunnanensis (Courchet & Gagnep.) R.C. Fang

Merremia yunnanensis (Courchet & Gagnep.) R.C. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · May 1922 to Jun 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merremia yunnanensis (Courchet & Gagnep.) R.C. Fang

Merremia yunnanensis (Courchet & Gagnep.) R.C. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · May 1922 to Jun 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alpinia bambusiflora C.F. Liang & D. Fang

Alpinia bambusiflora C.F. Liang & D. Fang

Artist not stated in the record · 1932 to 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules Holding a Club, by Giuseppe Cesari, Italian, born Arpino, Italy 1568-died Rome, Italy 1640

Hercules Holding a Club

Giuseppe Cesari, Italian, born Arpino, Italy 1568-died Rome, Italy 1640

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 927592 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 17:44 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.