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 “Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:31 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.
Box with Daoist Immortals

Box with Daoist Immortals

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Female immortal with a basket

Female immortal with a basket

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strolling in a misty valley, by Mei Qing

Strolling in a misty valley

Mei Qing · 1649

Public domainThe Met
Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖, by Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century)

Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖

Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mezzetin, by Antoine Watteau

Mezzetin

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure of a female Immortal, by Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century)

Standing figure of a female Immortal

Formerly attributed to Zhang Mei (active early-mid 10th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains, by Copy after Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552)

Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains

Copy after Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West, by Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264)

The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West

Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264) · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Youth in a Chariot with Attendant Young Woman, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Youth in a Chariot with Attendant Young Woman

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · ca. 1621–23

Public domainThe Met
An immortal and a deer looking at a dragon overhead, by Tuan Shigen (mid 18th century)

An immortal and a deer looking at a dragon overhead

Tuan Shigen (mid 18th century) · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals

Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
A female immortal on a porcine animal

A female immortal on a porcine animal

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Bringing a lute to an immortal's pavilion 攜琴仙觀圖, by Formerly attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977)

Bringing a lute to an immortal's pavilion 攜琴仙觀圖

Formerly attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
The palaces and gate towers of Penglai, by Zhu Dan (mid- to late 17th century)

The palaces and gate towers of Penglai

Zhu Dan (mid- to late 17th century) · 1683

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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3211052 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 13:31 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.