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 “Plate with Geese in Lotus Pond” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:28 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.
Plate with Geese in Lotus Pond

Plate with Geese in Lotus Pond

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–80

Public domainThe Met
Two geese feeding in a lotus pond, by Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan 錢選 (late 13th century)

Two geese feeding in a lotus pond

Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan 錢選 (late 13th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with Geese in a Lotus Pond

Plate with Geese in a Lotus Pond

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

Public domainThe Met
Nymphaea lotus L.

Nymphaea lotus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with carp in lotus pond

Jar with carp in lotus pond

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lotus purshii

Lotus purshii

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (bonheur du jour), by Claude-Charles Saunier

Desk (bonheur du jour)

Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon’s head and wind chime

Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon’s head and wind chime

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foliated plate with lotus

Foliated plate with lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Flying Geese, by Unidentified

Flying Geese

Unidentified · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flask with Lotus Pond

Flask with Lotus Pond

Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
People in Boat on Pond, by Hussey, Walter J.

People in Boat on Pond

Hussey, Walter J. · 1885-1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Lotus Pond

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Lotus Pond

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Palace ladies by a lotus pond, by Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century)

Palace ladies by a lotus pond

Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lotus

Lotus

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foliated plate with rocks, plants, and melons

Foliated plate with rocks, plants, and melons

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Dirinaria picta (Sw.) Schaer. & Clem.

Dirinaria picta (Sw.) Schaer. & Clem.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh Bowl

Marsh Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Dirinaria applanata (Fée) D.D. Awasthi

Dirinaria applanata (Fée) D.D. Awasthi

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Coccocarpia palmicola (Spreng.) Arv. & Galloway

Coccocarpia palmicola (Spreng.) Arv. & Galloway

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 2016

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. 150 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7463690 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 2026-08-27 07:28 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.