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 “Quercus hui Chun” — 43 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:33 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.
Summer Mountains, by Qu Ding

Summer Mountains

Qu Ding · ca. 1050

Public domainThe Met
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wangchuan Villa, by Wang Yuanqi

Wangchuan Villa

Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

Public domainThe Met
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress, by Paul Cézanne

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress

Paul Cézanne · 1888–90

Public domainThe Met
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 1932 to 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 1932 to 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1938 to 26 Jan 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1938 to 24 May 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1937 to 31 Dec 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quercus hui Chun

Quercus hui Chun

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1938 to 25 Jul 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. 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. 23970 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 15:33 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.