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. 24 shown for “Seated luohan holding a fan” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 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.
Seated luohan holding a fan

Seated luohan holding a fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer with a Fan, by Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Fan

Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palm of a Ceremonial Fan

Palm of a Ceremonial Fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for Portraits, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketches for Portraits

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan holding a rosary

Seated luohan holding a rosary

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan holding a book

Seated luohan holding a book

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hand Fan Design with a Chinoiserie Landscape and Ornament, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Hand Fan Design with a Chinoiserie Landscape and Ornament

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekanis (dish), by V. and A. Group

Terracotta lekanis (dish)

V. and A. Group · ca. 365–350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a man and a woman

Photograph of a man and a woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman Holding a Fan, by Umberto Boccioni

Seated Woman Holding a Fan

Umberto Boccioni · 1907

Public domainThe Met
LAO GINE ou Vieillard Chinois

LAO GINE ou Vieillard Chinois

Artist not stated in the record · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman Holding a Fan, by Antoine Watteau

Seated Woman Holding a Fan

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1717

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate), by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman Holding a Fan, by François Boucher

Seated Woman Holding a Fan

François Boucher · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
TAO KOU ou Religieuse de Tau à la Chine

TAO KOU ou Religieuse de Tau à la Chine

Artist not stated in the record · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated woman holding a fan, by Giuseppe Canale

Seated woman holding a fan

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
Nude Study of "Comedy" for Headband, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Nude Study of "Comedy" for Headband

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (mixing bowl), by Group of New York 17.210.240

Terracotta volute-krater (mixing bowl)

Group of New York 17.210.240 · ca. 340–320 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Group portrait of women photographed by Charles Franklin Moss

Group portrait of women photographed by Charles Franklin Moss

Artist not stated in the record · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan

Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Sally McKean, Marchioness of Yrujo

Portrait of Sally McKean, Marchioness of Yrujo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1773528 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 10:47 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.