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 “Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)” — 50 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:58 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.
Birds and Flowers, by Unidentified artist

Birds and Flowers

Unidentified artist

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
The Daming Palace, by Wang Zhenpeng

The Daming Palace

Wang Zhenpeng · early 15th century

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
Stag Hunt, by Huang Zongdao

Stag Hunt

Huang Zongdao

Public domainThe Met
A branch of loquats and a bird, by Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)

A branch of loquats and a bird

Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird on a Camellia Branch, by Unidentified artist

Bird on a Camellia Branch

Unidentified artist · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Mandarin ducks under smartweed, by Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)

Mandarin ducks under smartweed

Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 15th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copy of Tang Ming Huang Instructing the Prince, by Unidentified artist

Copy of Tang Ming Huang Instructing the Prince

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Sparrows feeding their young, by Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)

Sparrows feeding their young

Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 17th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River Landscape with Thirteen Inscriptions, by Unidentified artist

River Landscape with Thirteen Inscriptions

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Flowers, plants, and insects, by Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)

Flowers, plants, and insects

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”, by Musō Soseki

”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”

Musō Soseki · early to mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Hedera sinensis (Tobler) Hand.-Mazz.

Hedera sinensis (Tobler) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2010

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

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris atrata (Wall. ex Kunze) Ching

Dryopteris atrata (Wall. ex Kunze) Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Classic of Filial Piety, by Li Gonglin

The Classic of Filial Piety

Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Public domainThe Met
Acorus tatarinowii Schott

Acorus tatarinowii Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape after a poem by Wang Wei, by Tang Di

Landscape after a poem by Wang Wei

Tang Di · 1323

Public domainThe Met
Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao, by Formerly attributed to Sun Zhiwei (late 10th-early 11th century)

Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao

Formerly attributed to Sun Zhiwei (late 10th-early 11th century) · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
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. 926185 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 07:58 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.