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 “Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618-907)” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 13:40 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.
Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618-907)

Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618-907)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th–20th century

Public domainThe Met
Mirror (chien)

Mirror (chien)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th-9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618–907)

Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618–907)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of Mirror. Lion and grape design

Fragment of Mirror. Lion and grape design

Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with hunting scene

Mirror with hunting scene

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fitting in the form of a leaping lion

Fitting in the form of a leaping lion

Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a monk

Figure of a monk

Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of Guanyin of Eleven Heads

Fragment of Guanyin of Eleven Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Hair ornament. (with fragments)

Hair ornament. (with fragments)

Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure of Bodhisattva

Standing figure of Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 8th-9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Box and cover

Box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Bodhisattva

Head of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · first half 8th century

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. 2358 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. 7484731 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 13:40 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.