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 “Gu Jue” — 60 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:01 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.
Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”, by Gu Jue

Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”

Gu Jue · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Campylopus acrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Paris

Campylopus acrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Paris

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter, by Song Jue

Letter

Song Jue · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.

Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter, by Song Jue

Letter

Song Jue · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Mahonia duclouxiana Gagnep.

Mahonia duclouxiana Gagnep.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1920 to 6 Nov 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Vessel (Jue)

Ritual Wine Vessel (Jue)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1932 to Sep 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Beaker (Gu)

Ritual Wine Beaker (Gu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Vessel (Jiao)

Ritual Wine Vessel (Jiao)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis corniculata var. villosa (M. Bieb.) Hohen.

Oxalis corniculata var. villosa (M. Bieb.) Hohen.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)

Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora pallida L.

Passiflora pallida L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)

Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gus Hartz, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Gus Hartz

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Abies nephrolepis (Trautv.) Maxim.

Abies nephrolepis (Trautv.) Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Altar Table (Jin)

Ritual Altar Table (Jin)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Buddleja sp.

Buddleja sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Ladle (Dou)

Ritual Ladle (Dou)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cenchrus flaccidus (Griseb.) Morrone

Cenchrus flaccidus (Griseb.) Morrone

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Achnatherum sibiricum (L.) Keng ex Tzvelev

Achnatherum sibiricum (L.) Keng ex Tzvelev

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

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. 20 matched · 20 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. 860 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 08:01 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.