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 Qiao Zhongchang (active first-half 12th century)” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:43 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.
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Returning home after harvest, by Formerly attributed to Qiao Zhongchang (active first-half 12th century)

Returning home after harvest

Formerly attributed to Qiao Zhongchang (active first-half 12th century) · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

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

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fishing under an overhanging cliff, by Style of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century)

Fishing under an overhanging cliff

Style of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century) · 16th 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
Rocks, trees, brook, and hawks, by Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Rocks, trees, brook, and hawks

Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 14th 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
Picnic on the Riverbank, by Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Picnic on the Riverbank

Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 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
Dhyani Buddha, by Formerly attributed to Zhou Shan (active mid-12th century)

Dhyani Buddha

Formerly attributed to Zhou Shan (active 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
Listening to a flute in a lakeside pavilion, by Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Listening to a flute in a lakeside pavilion

Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, by Bernard van Orley

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Scholar approaching secluded pavilion, by Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Scholar approaching secluded pavilion

Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 15th-16th 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
Court ladies and attendant, by School of Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1524)

Court ladies and attendant

School of Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1524) · 16th 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
Pow-a-sheek - A Fox Chief, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

Pow-a-sheek - A Fox Chief

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror clock, by Master CR

Mirror clock

Master CR · ca. 1565–70

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
Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book, by Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master"

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

Artist not stated in the record · 1835

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

The Daming Palace

Wang Zhenpeng · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Two gentlemen contemplating a waterfall, by Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Two gentlemen contemplating a waterfall

Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 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. 363 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 925786 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-08 17:43 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.