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. 22 shown for “Po” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:44 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.
Po, by Chi

Po

Chi · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Taily-Po! You Know an' I Know (I'm A-Comin Fer to Get My Taily-Po), by A. B. Frost, born Philadelphia, PA 1851-died Pasadena, CA 1928

Taily-Po! You Know an' I Know (I'm A-Comin Fer to Get My Taily-Po)

A. B. Frost, born Philadelphia, PA 1851-died Pasadena, CA 1928 · ca. 1880-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Po

Po

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Po

Po

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru

Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Te Po, by Paul Gauguin

Te Po

Paul Gauguin · 1893–94

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Te Po, by Paul Gauguin

Te Po

Paul Gauguin · 1893–94

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Te Po, by Paul Gauguin

Te Po

Paul Gauguin · 1893–94

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Po (鈸 )

Po (鈸 )

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the woman of Canaan, by Pietro del Po

Christ and the woman of Canaan

Pietro del Po · ca. 1650–90

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with design of "Hundred Antiques"

Vase with design of "Hundred Antiques"

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oldenlandia verticillata L.

Oldenlandia verticillata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bombus sp.

Bombus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1938

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. 430 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2190 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-03 01:44 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.