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 “Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787)” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:17 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.
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Evaluating a horse, by Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787)

Evaluating a horse

Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Riding through snow in search of plum blossoms, by Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787)

Riding through snow in search of plum blossoms

Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Returning home after harvest, by Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787)

Returning home after harvest

Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 17th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Katharina Merian, by Hans Brosamer

Katharina Merian

Hans Brosamer

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, possibly arrowhead

Fragment, possibly arrowhead

Artist not stated in the record · 770 BCE-9 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, possibly arrowhead

Fragment, possibly arrowhead

Artist not stated in the record · 770 BCE-9 CE

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

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
Scabbard ornament: slide

Scabbard ornament: slide

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-9 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

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
Virgin and Child, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child

Hans Memling · 1480–85

Public domainThe Met
Landscape: mountains and valleys, by Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354)

Landscape: mountains and valleys

Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder

Commode

Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Drake and lotus flowers, by Formerly attributed to Huang Jucai (933-after 993)

Drake and lotus flowers

Formerly attributed to Huang Jucai (933-after 993) · 1279-1368

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Claudius Floris

Charity

Claudius Floris · 1536–1547/48

Public domainThe Met
Eight mynah birds with bamboo and orchids, by Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)

Eight mynah birds with bamboo and orchids

Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majas on a Balcony, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Majas on a Balcony

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Birds, willow tree, and flowers, by Follower of Lü Ji (ca. 1420-ca. 1505)

Birds, willow tree, and flowers

Follower of Lü Ji (ca. 1420-ca. 1505) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lupona (royal seat), by Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master"

Lupona (royal seat)

Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

Public domainThe Met
The thatched hut at Liangchang, by Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354)

The thatched hut at Liangchang

Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354) · 17th-18th 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. 273 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 935983 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 06:17 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.