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 Meng Xian (active 11th century)” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 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
An immortal gathering herbs and fungus, by Formerly attributed to Meng Xian (active 11th century)

An immortal gathering herbs and fungus

Formerly attributed to Meng Xian (active 11th century) · 17th century

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

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

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
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Three goats under a flowering plum tree, by Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century)

Three goats under a flowering plum tree

Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century)

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

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
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

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
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini, by Maestro delle Storie del Pane

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494?

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
Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini, by Maestro delle Storie del Pane

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494(?)

Public domainThe Met
Panthaka, the Tenth Venerable Luohan 半託迦尊者像, by Formerly attributed to Qian Yi (傳)錢易 (active early 11th century)

Panthaka, the Tenth Venerable Luohan 半託迦尊者像

Formerly attributed to Qian Yi (傳)錢易 (active early 11th century) · 1345

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
Willow, Geese, and Kingfisher, by Formerly attributed to Cui Bai (active mid- to late 11th century)

Willow, Geese, and Kingfisher

Formerly attributed to Cui Bai (active mid- to late 11th century) · 16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Daming Palace, by Wang Zhenpeng

The Daming Palace

Wang Zhenpeng · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Mending clothes in the early morning sun, by Formerly attributed to Li Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century)

Mending clothes in the early morning sun

Formerly attributed to Li Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Old woman on ox, with herd-boy and calf, by Formerly attributed to Goulong Shuang (active late 11th century)

Old woman on ox, with herd-boy and calf

Formerly attributed to Goulong Shuang (active late 11th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · late 1640s

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Lycopodium japonicum Thunb.

Lycopodium japonicum Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 2006

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. 154 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. 960268 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 13:27 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.