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. 18 shown for “Song Jue” — 48 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 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.
Letter, by Song Jue

Letter

Song Jue · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Campylopus acrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Paris

Campylopus acrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Paris

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter, by Song Jue

Letter

Song Jue · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.

Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and groom, by Unidentified artist

Horse and groom

Unidentified artist · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Mahonia duclouxiana Gagnep.

Mahonia duclouxiana Gagnep.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1920 to 6 Nov 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Going Upriver on the Qingming Festival, by Unidentified artist

Going Upriver on the Qingming Festival

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met
Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1932 to Sep 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sea and Sky at Sunrise, by Unidentified artist

Sea and Sky at Sunrise

Unidentified artist · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drunk in Autumn Woods, by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

Drunk in Autumn Woods

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · ca. 1702

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis corniculata var. villosa (M. Bieb.) Hohen.

Oxalis corniculata var. villosa (M. Bieb.) Hohen.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Riverbank, by Dong Yuan

Riverbank

Dong Yuan

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora pallida L.

Passiflora pallida L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual wine warmer with taotie

Ritual wine warmer with taotie

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 11th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sing a Song of Sixpence

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Artist not stated in the record · 1890–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handkerchief

Handkerchief

Artist not stated in the record · 1790s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird-man on high poem by Harriet Gaylord ; music by Frank H. Grey, by Grey, Frank H. 1883-1951

Bird-man on high poem by Harriet Gaylord ; music by Frank H. Grey

Grey, Frank H. 1883-1951 · 1921

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4274 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 11:20 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.