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. 12 shown for “Liu Jun” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:23 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Maackia amurensis Rupr.

Maackia amurensis Rupr.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aralia taiwaniana Y.C. Liu & F.Y. Liu

Aralia taiwaniana Y.C. Liu & F.Y. Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aralia taiwaniana Y.C. Liu & F.Y. Liu

Aralia taiwaniana Y.C. Liu & F.Y. Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phippsiomeles matudae (Lundell) B.B. Liu & J. Wen

Phippsiomeles matudae (Lundell) B.B. Liu & J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1941 to 29 Jun 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sinosenecio yilingii Y. Liu & Q. E. Yang

Sinosenecio yilingii Y. Liu & Q. E. Yang

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaetophoropsis elegans (Roth) B.Wen Liu et al.

Chaetophoropsis elegans (Roth) B.Wen Liu et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Litsea viridis H. Liu

Litsea viridis H. Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beilschmiedia ferruginea H. Liu

Beilschmiedia ferruginea H. Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ranunculus longicaulis var. nephelogenes (Edgew.) L. Liu

Ranunculus longicaulis var. nephelogenes (Edgew.) L. Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ranunculus longicaulis var. nephelogenes (Edgew.) L. Liu

Ranunculus longicaulis var. nephelogenes (Edgew.) L. Liu

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaetophoropsis elegans (Roth) B.Wen Liu et al.

Chaetophoropsis elegans (Roth) B.Wen Liu et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaetophoropsis elegans (Roth) B.Wen Liu et al.

Chaetophoropsis elegans (Roth) B.Wen Liu et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1954

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 731132 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 2026-08-28 23:23 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.