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. 20 shown for “God of Longevity (Shoulao) and boy” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 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.
God of Longevity (Shoulao) and boy

God of Longevity (Shoulao) and boy

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Almighty in the Clouds, with Two Boy Angels

The Almighty in the Clouds, with Two Boy Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God of Longevity (Shoulao) with children

God of Longevity (Shoulao) with children

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Immortals Offering the Peaches of Longevity

Vase with Immortals Offering the Peaches of Longevity

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Six Theseus Subjects for the Palazzo Gaddi, Forli, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Theseus Subjects for the Palazzo Gaddi, Forli

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God of Longevity (Shoulao)

God of Longevity (Shoulao)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoulao, by Chantilly

Shoulao

Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God of Longevity (Shoulao)

God of Longevity (Shoulao)

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Grotesque Candelabrum

Four Grotesque Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God of Longevity (Shoulao) and a deer

God of Longevity (Shoulao) and a deer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Abstract Hexagons

Abstract Hexagons

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th - mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a boy wearing a wreath

Marble head of a boy wearing a wreath

Artist not stated in the record · mid–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fisher Boy, by Hiram Powers

Fisher Boy

Hiram Powers · 1841–44; carved 1857

Public domainThe Met
Boy with a Fawn

Boy with a Fawn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Shouxing, Stellar God of Immortality

Shouxing, Stellar God of Immortality

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 216 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. 3110162 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 03:46 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.