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 “Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:50 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.
Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals

Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum crane

Chrysanthemum crane

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Landscape carved in low relief

Landscape carved in low relief

Artist not stated in the record · 1735-1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Immortals, by Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近

Immortals

Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近 · ca. 1620s–30s

Public domainThe Met
Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖, by Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century)

Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖

Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
The five ancients, by Formerly attributed to Li Congxun (active early 12th century)

The five ancients

Formerly attributed to Li Congxun (active early 12th century) · 15th-early 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The strange pines of Mount Tiantai, by Dai Benxiao

The strange pines of Mount Tiantai

Dai Benxiao · 1687

Public domainThe Met
Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Sierras, by The Schmitz-Horning Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1905 - 1960

Sierras

The Schmitz-Horning Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1905 - 1960 · 1913–1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
View of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, by Grafton Tyler Brown, American, 1841 - 1918

View of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia

Grafton Tyler Brown, American, 1841 - 1918 · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Carving

Carving

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooded Mountains at Dusk, by Kuncan

Wooded Mountains at Dusk

Kuncan · dated 1666

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains, by Copy after Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552)

Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains

Copy after Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Michael and the Dragon, by Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?)

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Public domainThe Met
Female immortal with a basket

Female immortal with a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

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. 367 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. 7483983 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 17:50 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.