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. 17 shown for “Tu Long” — 58 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:13 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.
Poem on a hermitage, by Tu Long

Poem on a hermitage

Tu Long · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Taenitis blechnoides (Willd.) Sw.

Taenitis blechnoides (Willd.) Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ugolino and His Sons, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Ugolino and His Sons

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1865–67

Public domainThe Met
Boehmeria penduliflora Wedd. ex D.G. Long

Boehmeria penduliflora Wedd. ex D.G. Long

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child at a table with the young John the Baptist, after Reni, by Anonymous, 17th century

The Virgin and Child at a table with the young John the Baptist, after Reni

Anonymous, 17th century · ca. 1600–40

Public domainThe Met
Schefflera heptaphylla (L.) Frodin

Schefflera heptaphylla (L.) Frodin

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Night-Shining White, by Han Gan

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
Aporosa octandra (Buch.-Ham. & D. Don) Vickery

Aporosa octandra (Buch.-Ham. & D. Don) Vickery

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt or girdle with a woven love poem

Belt or girdle with a woven love poem

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.

Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Oct 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Promised Land, by Franklin Simmons

The Promised Land

Franklin Simmons · 1873–74; carved 1874

Public domainThe Met
Grooms and horses, by Zhao Mengfu

Grooms and horses

Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

Public domainThe Met
Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 2 (recto), by Federico de Vinciolo

Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 2 (recto)

Federico de Vinciolo · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Historical and legendary figures, by Hu Zhang

Historical and legendary figures

Hu Zhang · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Landscapes after old masters, by Pan Gongshou

Landscapes after old masters

Pan Gongshou · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece and Colophons to the Album "Five Old Men of Suiyang", by Various Scholars

Frontispiece and Colophons to the Album "Five Old Men of Suiyang"

Various Scholars

Public domainThe Met
The Classic of Filial Piety, by Li Gonglin

The Classic of Filial Piety

Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 45360 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:13 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.