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. 14 shown for “Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)” — 42 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:59 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.
Album of Copies of Chinese Paintings, by Kano Tsunenobu

Album of Copies of Chinese Paintings

Kano Tsunenobu · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen, by Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)

Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen

Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Angels, by North Italian Painter (Verona?)

Two Angels

North Italian Painter (Verona?) · ca. 1330

Public domainThe Met
Zenobia pulverulenta (W. Bartram ex Willd.) Pollard

Zenobia pulverulenta (W. Bartram ex Willd.) Pollard

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
cf. Sphaeranthus sp.

cf. Sphaeranthus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Begonia parvifolia Poepp. & Endl.

Begonia parvifolia Poepp. & Endl.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1979 or 1 Jun 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Begonia parvifolia Poepp. & Endl.

Begonia parvifolia Poepp. & Endl.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1979 or 1 Jun 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aster ageratoides Turcz.

Aster ageratoides Turcz.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solidago virgaurea var. asiatica Nakai

Solidago virgaurea var. asiatica Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cirsium borealinipponense Kitam. & Murata ex Kitam.

Cirsium borealinipponense Kitam. & Murata ex Kitam.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Homoschema blakeae

Homoschema blakeae

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Niagara Panorama, Summer], by Unidentified

[Niagara Panorama, Summer]

Unidentified · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acmispon americanus (Nutt.) Rydb.

Acmispon americanus (Nutt.) Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaenactis xantiana A. Gray

Chaenactis xantiana A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2019

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 85 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 19:59 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.