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 Li You (11th or 12th century)” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:45 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.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Two hawks on a withered bough, by Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century)

Two hawks on a withered bough

Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Public domainThe Met
Hawk on a leafless branch, by Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century)

Hawk on a leafless branch

Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century) · 1279-1368

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Flowers, ducks, and other birds, by Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Flowers, ducks, and other birds

Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 15th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Two hawks on a barren bough, by Formerly attributed to Li Demao (late 12th-early 13th century)

Two hawks on a barren bough

Formerly attributed to Li Demao (late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Pheasants and snow-covered plum blossoms, by Formerly attributed to Ge Shouchang (active late 11th century)

Pheasants and snow-covered plum blossoms

Formerly attributed to Ge Shouchang (active late 11th century) · 15th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Mandarin ducks and flowers, by Formerly attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century)

Mandarin ducks and flowers

Formerly attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavichord, by Christian Kintzing

Clavichord

Christian Kintzing · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Amitabha welcoming a soul to paradise, by Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century)

Amitabha welcoming a soul to paradise

Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

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
Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480), by Heinrich Heid von Winterthur

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480)

Heinrich Heid von Winterthur · dated 1460

Public domainThe Met
Washing the white elephant, by Formerly attributed to Zhao Lingjun (active late 11th century)

Washing the white elephant

Formerly attributed to Zhao Lingjun (active late 11th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Visiting a friend by boat, by Formerly attributed to Zhong Wenxiu (11th century)

Visiting a friend by boat

Formerly attributed to Zhong Wenxiu (11th century) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Masked Ball in Bohemia, by Andreas Altomonte

A Masked Ball in Bohemia

Andreas Altomonte · ca. 1748

Public domainThe Met
Man and woman enjoying plum blossoms, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Gui (active mid-12th century)

Man and woman enjoying plum blossoms

Formerly attributed to Zhang Gui (active mid-12th century) · 15th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box), by Penthesilea Painter

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The five ancients, by Formerly attributed to Li Congxun (active early 12th century)

The five ancients

Formerly attributed to Li Congxun (active early 12th century) · 15th-early 16th 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. 1406 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. 1009025 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 23:45 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.