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 “Traditionally attributed to Dai Wan (active early 12th century)” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:43 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.
Three Poems from the Later Collection of Japanese Poems (Gosen wakashū), by Monk Saigyō

Three Poems from the Later Collection of Japanese Poems (Gosen wakashū)

Monk Saigyō · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Birds, plum blossoms, bamboo and snow, by Traditionally attributed to Dai Wan (active early 12th century)

Birds, plum blossoms, bamboo and snow

Traditionally attributed to Dai Wan (active early 12th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Water-buffaloes and attendants under willow-trees, by Traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi (active early 12th century)

Water-buffaloes and attendants under willow-trees

Traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi (active early 12th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers, by Kano Motonobu

Birds and Flowers

Kano Motonobu · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sitting under a pine, by Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Sitting under a pine

Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Pavilion on the hillside, by Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Pavilion on the hillside

Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Jan Provoost

The Crucifixion

Jan Provoost · ca. 1495

Public domainThe Met
Fishing under an overhanging cliff, by Style of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century)

Fishing under an overhanging cliff

Style of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480), by Heinrich Heid von Winterthur

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480)

Heinrich Heid von Winterthur · dated 1460

Public domainThe Met
The studious woodcutter Zhu Maichen, by Follower of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century)

The studious woodcutter Zhu Maichen

Follower of Jiang Song (active late 15th-early 16th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavichord, by Christian Kintzing

Clavichord

Christian Kintzing · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Listening to a flute in a lakeside pavilion, by Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Listening to a flute in a lakeside pavilion

Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Scholar approaching secluded pavilion, by Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Scholar approaching secluded pavilion

Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan 馬遠 (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The strange pines of Mount Tiantai, by Dai Benxiao

The strange pines of Mount Tiantai

Dai Benxiao · 1687

Public domainThe Met
Removing the saddle, inspecting the arrows 解鞍調箭圖, by Traditionally attributed to Zhang Kan (傳)張戡 (active mid-10th century)

Removing the saddle, inspecting the arrows 解鞍調箭圖

Traditionally attributed to Zhang Kan (傳)張戡 (active mid-10th century) · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Picnic on the Riverbank, by Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743)

Picnic on the Riverbank

Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Public domainThe Met
Court ladies and attendant, by School of Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1524)

Court ladies and attendant

School of Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1524) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Michael and the Dragon, by Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?)

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Public domainThe Met
Amitabha welcoming a soul to paradise, by Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century)

Amitabha welcoming a soul to paradise

Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century

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. 994 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. 965662 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 2026-08-29 05:43 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.