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. 15 shown for “Mo Shilong” — 43 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 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.
Landscape in the style of Huang Gongwang, by Mo Shilong

Landscape in the style of Huang Gongwang

Mo Shilong · 1581

Public domainThe Met
Deparia japonica (Thunb.) M. Kato

Deparia japonica (Thunb.) M. Kato

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Nov 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring Garden in Bloom, by Mo Shilong

Spring Garden in Bloom

Mo Shilong

Public domainThe Met
Setaria palmifolia (J. Koenig) Stapf

Setaria palmifolia (J. Koenig) Stapf

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Unidentified artist

Landscape

Unidentified artist · early 20th century, spurious date of 1577

Public domainThe Met
Galinsoga parviflora Cav.

Galinsoga parviflora Cav.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ardisia balansana Y.P. Yang

Ardisia balansana Y.P. Yang

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1940 to 9 Sep 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ardisia chinensis Benth.

Ardisia chinensis Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1940 to 5 Jul 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anoda cristata (L.) Schltdl.

Anoda cristata (L.) Schltdl.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke

Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crataegus crus-galli L.

Crataegus crus-galli L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrophularia incisa Weinm.

Scrophularia incisa Weinm.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hydrangea heteromalla D. Don

Hydrangea heteromalla D. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euonymus nanus M. Bieb.

Euonymus nanus M. Bieb.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maesa ramentacea (Roxb.) A. DC.

Maesa ramentacea (Roxb.) A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1940 to 5 Jul 1940

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13443 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 08:04 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.