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 “Qi Zhijia” — 43 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 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 with fisherman, by Qi Zhijia

Landscape with fisherman

Qi Zhijia · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Ribes hunanense C.Y. Yang & C. J. Qi

Ribes hunanense C.Y. Yang & C. J. Qi

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape after Ni Zan, by Qi Zhijia

Landscape after Ni Zan

Qi Zhijia · dated 1651

Public domainThe Met
Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanensis C. Qi & Z. Yuan ex S.S. Renner

Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanensis C. Qi & Z. Yuan ex S.S. Renner

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pavilion amongst Wintry Trees after Ni Zan, by Qi Zhijia

Pavilion amongst Wintry Trees after Ni Zan

Qi Zhijia · dated 1661

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus matsumurae Hayata

Phyllanthus matsumurae Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two fighting water buffaloes

Two fighting water buffaloes

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Impatiens balsamina L.

Impatiens balsamina L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elatostema atroviride W.T. Wang

Elatostema atroviride W.T. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pellionia radicans (Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd.

Pellionia radicans (Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adinandra millettii Benth. & Hook. f. ex Hance

Adinandra millettii Benth. & Hook. f. ex Hance

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elatostema nasutum Hook. f.

Elatostema nasutum Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypericum japonicum Thunb.

Hypericum japonicum Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore

Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpinus cordata Blume

Carpinus cordata Blume

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 2010

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. 204 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.