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. 17 shown for “Mi Wanzhong” — 46 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 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.
Couplet from Song Zhiwen’s poem “Ascending the Pavilion at the Monastery of Meditative Concentration”, by Mi Wanzhong

Couplet from Song Zhiwen’s poem “Ascending the Pavilion at the Monastery of Meditative Concentration”

Mi Wanzhong · late 16th or early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Poa secunda J. Presl

Poa secunda J. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Azure Cliff with Red Maples, by Wu Bin

Azure Cliff with Red Maples

Wu Bin · dated 1603

Public domainThe Met
Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) A. Meeuse & A.Smit

Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) A. Meeuse & A.Smit

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sixteen Luohans, by Wu Bin

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin · dated 1591

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata

Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Wang Wei, by Dong Qichang

Poem by Wang Wei

Dong Qichang · after 1632

Public domainThe Met
Dalea ornata (Hook.) Eaton & Wright

Dalea ornata (Hook.) Eaton & Wright

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese Poem on Zen Meditation, by Feiyin Tongrong

Chinese Poem on Zen Meditation

Feiyin Tongrong · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lupinus sericeus Pursh

Lupinus sericeus Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erigeron linearis (Hook.) Piper

Erigeron linearis (Hook.) Piper

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Purshia tridentata (Pursh) DC.

Purshia tridentata (Pursh) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polygonum bistortoides Pursh

Polygonum bistortoides Pursh

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boykinia major A. Gray

Boykinia major A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegilops sp.

Aegilops sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola purpurea var. aurea (Kellogg) M.S. Baker ex Jeps.

Viola purpurea var. aurea (Kellogg) M.S. Baker ex Jeps.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lomatium nevadense (S. Watson) J.M. Coult. & Rose

Lomatium nevadense (S. Watson) J.M. Coult. & Rose

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 210349 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 18:55 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.