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 “Luo Ping” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 03:30 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.
Drinking in the Bamboo Garden on the Lantern Festival, by Luo Ping

Drinking in the Bamboo Garden on the Lantern Festival

Luo Ping · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Standing man in a red coat, by Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Standing man in a red coat

Luo Ping (1733-1799) · 18th century ?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird, by Ju Chao

Bird

Ju Chao

Public domainThe Met
Vitis adenoclada Hand.-Mazz.

Vitis adenoclada Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plum blossoms, by Jin Nong

Plum blossoms

Jin Nong · dated 1757

Public domainThe Met
Tetrastigma planicaule (W. Hook.) Gagnep.

Tetrastigma planicaule (W. Hook.) Gagnep.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poems on Paintings, Written for Ma Yueguan, by Jin Nong

Poems on Paintings, Written for Ma Yueguan

Jin Nong · dated 1754

Public domainThe Met
Eleutherococcus trifoliatus (L.) S.Y. Hu

Eleutherococcus trifoliatus (L.) S.Y. Hu

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive tablet with Buddha

Votive tablet with Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · dated 526 (2nd year of Xiaochang reign)

Public domainThe Met
Nyssa sinensis Oliv. in Hook.

Nyssa sinensis Oliv. in Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polestar Deity Kui Xing

Polestar Deity Kui Xing

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

Public domainThe Met
Brassaiopsis glomerulata (Blume) Regel

Brassaiopsis glomerulata (Blume) Regel

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painting table

Painting table

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

Public domainThe Met
Tetrastigma hemsleyanum Diels & Gilg

Tetrastigma hemsleyanum Diels & Gilg

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Causonis japonica (Thunb.) Raf.

Causonis japonica (Thunb.) Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Vitis 'Labruscana'

Vitis 'Labruscana'

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”, by Zhang Xihuang

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

Zhang Xihuang · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cissus assamica (M.A. Lawson) Craib

Cissus assamica (M.A. Lawson) Craib

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with Camellia and Plum

Plate with Camellia and Plum

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Aralia finlaysoniana (Wall. ex G. Don) Seem.

Aralia finlaysoniana (Wall. ex G. Don) Seem.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Blossoming Plum, by Li Fangying

Album of Blossoming Plum

Li Fangying · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Nekemias rubifolia (Wall.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Nekemias rubifolia (Wall.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

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. 24 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. 2613 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 03:30 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.