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 “Prince Lu” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:26 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.
Guqin (古琴 ), by Prince Lu

Guqin (古琴 )

Prince Lu · 1634

Public domainThe Met
Baijiania yunnanensis (A.M. Lu & Zhi Y. Zhang) A.M. Lu & J.Q. Li

Baijiania yunnanensis (A.M. Lu & Zhi Y. Zhang) A.M. Lu & J.Q. Li

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Qin, by Prince Lu

Qin

Prince Lu · 1634

Public domainThe Met
Bambusa dolichomerithalla Hayata

Bambusa dolichomerithalla Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studying a painting, by Zhang Lu

Studying a painting

Zhang Lu · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bambusa pachinensis Hayata

Bambusa pachinensis Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Night-Shining White, by Han Gan

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
Pseudocayratia oliogocarpa (H. Lév. & Vaniot) J. Wen & L.M. Lu

Pseudocayratia oliogocarpa (H. Lév. & Vaniot) J. Wen & L.M. Lu

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Lazarus, plate 1 from "The Parable of Dives and Lazarus" (La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare), by Abraham Bosse

The Death of Lazarus, plate 1 from "The Parable of Dives and Lazarus" (La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare)

Abraham Bosse · 1620–76

Public domainThe Met
Bambusa spinosa Roxb.

Bambusa spinosa Roxb.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finches and bamboo, by Emperor Huizong

Finches and bamboo

Emperor Huizong · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai

Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bambusa dolichoclada 'Sun-Moon-Lake'

Bambusa dolichoclada 'Sun-Moon-Lake'

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1963

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
Prunus oblonga (T.T. Yu & L.T. Lu) ined.

Prunus oblonga (T.T. Yu & L.T. Lu) ined.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Nov 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grain serving vessel (gui)

Grain serving vessel (gui)

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Munro var. nigra

Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Munro var. nigra

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu, by Various artists

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu

Various artists · 1666–80

Public domainThe Met
Microscelis amaurotis harterti

Microscelis amaurotis harterti

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario, by Antonello Gagini

Spinario

Antonello Gagini · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 30 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. 36318 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 00:26 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.