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. 13 shown for “Shi Dabin” — 41 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Teapot in the Shape of a Plum Blossom, by Shi Dabin

Teapot in the Shape of a Plum Blossom

Shi Dabin · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria violascens Link

Digitaria violascens Link

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microstegium ciliatum (Trin.) A. Camus

Microstegium ciliatum (Trin.) A. Camus

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cenchrus purpurascens Thunb.

Cenchrus purpurascens Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schefflera heptaphylla (L.) Frodin

Schefflera heptaphylla (L.) Frodin

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Millettia oraria (Hance) Dunn

Millettia oraria (Hance) Dunn

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diospyros vaccinioides Lindl.

Diospyros vaccinioides Lindl.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tetrastigma hemsleyanum Diels & Gilg

Tetrastigma hemsleyanum Diels & Gilg

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melicope pteleifolia (Champ. ex Benth.) T.G. Hartley

Melicope pteleifolia (Champ. ex Benth.) T.G. Hartley

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendropanax proteus (Champ. ex Benth.) Benth.

Dendropanax proteus (Champ. ex Benth.) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acronychia pedunculata (L.) Miq.

Acronychia pedunculata (L.) Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zanthoxylum avicennae (Lam.) DC.

Zanthoxylum avicennae (Lam.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adina pilulifera (Lam.) Franch. & Drake

Adina pilulifera (Lam.) Franch. & Drake

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 2014

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3404 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 11:45 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.