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. 13 shown for “Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:53 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.
Luohan, by Guanxiu

Luohan

Guanxiu · 15th century?

Public domainThe Met
Sakyamuni seated upon three demon-like creatures, by Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)

Sakyamuni seated upon three demon-like creatures

Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912) · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan and demon, by Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)

Luohan and demon

Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The great luohan, the venerable seventeenth 大阿羅漢尊者像, by Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)

The great luohan, the venerable seventeenth 大阿羅漢尊者像

Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912) · 1345

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan Meditating in a Grotto, by Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)

Luohan Meditating in a Grotto

Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912) · 1345?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan in a tree and tortoise presenting a scroll, by Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)

Luohan in a tree and tortoise presenting a scroll

Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caparisoned elephant and attendant, by Traditionally attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912)

Caparisoned elephant and attendant

Traditionally attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休 (822-912) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape: mountain peaks and valley, by Formerly attributed to Mi Fu (傳)米芾 (1052-1107)

Landscape: mountain peaks and valley

Formerly attributed to Mi Fu (傳)米芾 (1052-1107) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Formerly attributed to Mi Fu (傳)米芾 (1052-1107)

Landscape

Formerly attributed to Mi Fu (傳)米芾 (1052-1107) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Literary gathering, by Formerly attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106)

Literary gathering

Formerly attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Five hundred luohans, by Formerly attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106)

Five hundred luohans

Formerly attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape: mountain peaks and stream, by Formerly attributed to Mi Fu (傳)米芾 (1052-1107)

Landscape: mountain peaks and stream

Formerly attributed to Mi Fu (傳)米芾 (1052-1107) · 1368-1644

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 925297 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 10:53 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.