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 “Kosode with a Paragon of Filial Piety” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:49 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.
Kosode with a Paragon of Filial Piety

Kosode with a Paragon of Filial Piety

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Filial piety: Yang Hsiang saving his father from a tiger, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Filial piety: Yang Hsiang saving his father from a tiger

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paragons of Loyalty and Filial Piety, by Wang Shanggong

Paragons of Loyalty and Filial Piety

Wang Shanggong · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Pitney Bowes Paragon mail processor prototype, by Pitney Bowes Inc.

Pitney Bowes Paragon mail processor prototype

Pitney Bowes Inc. · 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Xin Pi tugging the emperor's robe 辛毗引裾圖

Xin Pi tugging the emperor's robe 辛毗引裾圖

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Piety, by Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651

Piety

Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Classic of Filial Piety, by Li Gonglin

The Classic of Filial Piety

Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Public domainThe Met
Pietas, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Pietas

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1594–1596

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

The Adoration of the Magi

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Forgetting Filial Piety, by Torii Kiyonaga

Forgetting Filial Piety

Torii Kiyonaga · ca. 1781

Public domainThe Met
The Spirit of Piety, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Spirit of Piety

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes of Filial Piety

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes of Filial Piety

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

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia sylvatica (Torr.) Torr. ex A. Gray

Muhlenbergia sylvatica (Torr.) Torr. ex A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paragons of Filial Piety (from a set of twenty-four), by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Paragons of Filial Piety (from a set of twenty-four)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia sylvatica (Torr.) Torr. ex A. Gray

Muhlenbergia sylvatica (Torr.) Torr. ex A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Digging Bamboo Shoots in the Snow, or Parody of Meng Zong (Mōsō), from Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety, by Suzuki Harunobu

Woman Digging Bamboo Shoots in the Snow, or Parody of Meng Zong (Mōsō), from Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety

Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Vanda Somsri Paragon

Vanda Somsri Paragon

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
× Oncidopsis Pacific Paragon 'Golden Goddess'

× Oncidopsis Pacific Paragon 'Golden Goddess'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Statuette: Avalokiteshvara (Kuan yin)

Statuette: Avalokiteshvara (Kuan yin)

Artist not stated in the record · 520

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. 42 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. 3878007 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-29 17:49 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.